VacationSelector

Krakow or Rotterdam?

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

Your match

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

KrakowRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
KrakowRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km922
Coast distance456 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
KrakowRotterdam
Score6872
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3046
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 15 points.15
KrakowRotterdam
Score7560
Museums within 10 km8441
Museums within 2 km of centre6920
Share of museums within 2 km %8249
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 8 points.8
KrakowRotterdam
Score5749
Drinking venues within 4 km836542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8370
Nightclubs within 4 km5440
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 4 points.4
KrakowRotterdam
Score4642
Protected land share 50 km %1410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km79 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 12 points.12
KrakowRotterdam
Score7462
Tourist attractions within 2 km7727
Park area within 2 km79 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km48
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 17 points.17
KrakowRotterdam
Score6851
Notable places within 2 km19874
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
KrakowRotterdam
Score7958
Price level global4979.2
Daily budget€133€181
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 2 points.2
KrakowRotterdam
Score5856
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months40
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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
3 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€155-209
1 stop
AMS · 47 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

MeasureKrakowRotterdam
Official languagePolishDutch
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation219 m10 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowRotterdam
City population804,237664,311
People per km²2,4592,080
Museums within 10 km11440
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre6877
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.