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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Krakow or San Juan?

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

  • getting around
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose San Juan for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’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, San Juan 84: San Juan leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, San Juan 66: San Juan leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, San Juan 64: Krakow leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, San Juan 70: San Juan leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, San Juan 74: San Juan leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, San Juan 52: Krakow leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Krakow and San Juan are level on 58.
Getting around. Krakow 74, San Juan 38: Krakow leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, San Juan 50: San Juan leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, San Juan 38: Krakow leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow and San Juan are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, San Juan 40: San Juan leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and San Juan.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Krakow
58match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

San Juan
57match

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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowSan Juan

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowSan Juan
Official languagePolishSpanish, English
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m3 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowSan Juan
City population804,237342,259
People per km²2,4592,847
Museums within 10 km11318
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.