VacationSelector

Krakow or Salzburg?

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 good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

KrakowSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Krakow and Salzburg are level on 0.
KrakowSalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km99
Coast distance456 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
KrakowSalzburg
Score6849
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3023
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 15 points.15
KrakowSalzburg
Score7560
Museums within 10 km8442
Museums within 2 km of centre6927
Share of museums within 2 km %8264
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
KrakowSalzburg
Score5736
Drinking venues within 4 km836294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8382
Nightclubs within 4 km5416
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
KrakowSalzburg
Score4627
Protected land share 50 km %146
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km79 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 26 points.26
KrakowSalzburg
Score7448
Tourist attractions within 2 km7717
Park area within 2 km79 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 22 points.22
KrakowSalzburg
Score6846
Notable places within 2 km19854
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 20 points.20
KrakowSalzburg
Score7959
Price level global4976.9
Daily budget€133€160
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 4 points.4
KrakowSalzburg
Score5854
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm47 mm to 168 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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F
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M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowSalzburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€225-291
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€226-261
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
3 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
SZG · 3 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 2026-09 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

MeasureKrakowSalzburg
Official languagePolishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation219 m424 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowSalzburg
City population804,237155,021
People per km²2,4592,360
Museums within 10 km11438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre6850

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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. 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.