VacationSelector

Krakow or Porto?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Krakow
58
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

KrakowPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
KrakowPorto
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km952
Coast distance456 km4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Krakow and Porto are level on 68.
KrakowPorto
Score6868
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0321,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3027
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 4 points.4
KrakowPorto
Score7571
Museums within 10 km84101
Museums within 2 km of centre6957
Share of museums within 2 km %8256
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Porto leads by 1 points.1
KrakowPorto
Score5758
Drinking venues within 4 km836900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8363
Nightclubs within 4 km5438
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 13 points.13
KrakowPorto
Score4633
Protected land share 50 km %147
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km79 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 9 points.9
KrakowPorto
Score7465
Tourist attractions within 2 km77122
Park area within 2 km79 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 14 points.14
KrakowPorto
Score6854
Notable places within 2 km19885
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 5 points.5
KrakowPorto
Score7974
Price level global4955.9
Daily budget€133€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 13 points.13
KrakowPorto
Score5871
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months43
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowPorto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
3 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 0 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureKrakowPorto
Official languagePolishPortuguese
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m104 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowPorto
City population804,237231,800
People per km²2,4595,599
Museums within 10 km11442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre6870
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.