VacationSelector

Krakow or Rome?

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 value for money and places to eat with your weighting.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

KrakowRome
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
KrakowRome
Score033
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km93
Coast distance456 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 8 points.8
KrakowRome
Score6860
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0322,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3010
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 9 points.9
KrakowRome
Score7584
Museums within 10 km84161
Museums within 2 km of centre6979
Share of museums within 2 km %8249
Unesco sites within 50 km47
Nightlife. Rome leads by 17 points.17
KrakowRome
Score5774
Drinking venues within 4 km8362,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8345
Nightclubs within 4 km5485
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 24 points.24
KrakowRome
Score4670
Protected land share 50 km %1419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km79 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 12 points.12
KrakowRome
Score7486
Tourist attractions within 2 km77126
Park area within 2 km79 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 31 points.31
KrakowRome
Score6899
Notable places within 2 km1981,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 11 points.11
KrakowRome
Score7968
Price level global4964.9
Daily budget€133€155
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 13 points.13
KrakowRome
Score5871
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm21 mm to 114 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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowRome
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€84-118
FCO · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€96-147
FCO · 23 km
MadridMAD
3 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€60-112
FCO · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€176-218
FCO · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
5 h 45 m
€270-340
FCO · 23 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

MeasureKrakowRome
Official languagePolishItalian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m21 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowRome
City population804,2372,748,109
People per km²2,4592,135
Museums within 10 km114177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km47
Distinct cuisines in the centre6865
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.