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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Krakow or Puerto Princesa?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Krakow for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’s own page.

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Krakow 9, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Puerto Princesa 38: Krakow leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Puerto Princesa 22: Krakow leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Puerto Princesa 26: Krakow leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Puerto Princesa 12: Krakow leads by 64 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Puerto Princesa 45: Krakow leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Puerto Princesa 30: Krakow leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Puerto Princesa 20: Krakow leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Puerto Princesa 10: Krakow leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Puerto Princesa 40: Puerto Princesa leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowPuerto Princesa

Where the figures come from

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureKrakowPuerto Princesa
Official languagePolishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCE50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m98 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowPuerto Princesa
City population804,237316,384
People per km²2,459133
Museums within 10 km1131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.