VacationSelector

Krakow or San Jose?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

San Jose
39
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

KrakowSan Jose
Beaches & swimming. San Jose leads by 8 points.8
KrakowSan Jose
Score08
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance456 km14 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 27 points.27
KrakowSan Jose
Score6841
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3016
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 49 points.49
KrakowSan Jose
Score7526
Museums within 10 km8420
Museums within 2 km of centre699
Share of museums within 2 km %8245
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 26 points.26
KrakowSan Jose
Score5731
Drinking venues within 4 km836231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre69788
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8338
Nightclubs within 4 km5416
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 24 points.24
KrakowSan Jose
Score4670
Protected land share 50 km %1426
Landscape blanket share 50 km %12
Land share of disc %10091
Park area within 2 km79 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 41 points.41
KrakowSan Jose
Score7433
Tourist attractions within 2 km772
Park area within 2 km79 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 54 points.54
KrakowSan Jose
Score6814
Notable places within 2 km1989
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 36 points.36
KrakowSan Jose
Score7943
Price level global49100
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 27 points.27
KrakowSan Jose
Score5885
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months48
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
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowSan Jose
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 57 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

MeasureKrakowSan Jose
Official languagePolish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m25 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowSan Jose
City population804,2371,013,240
People per km²2,4592,167
Museums within 10 km11419
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6830
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.