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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Krakow or Santa Fe?

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

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • getting around

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

Choose Santa Fe for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’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, Santa Fe 5: Krakow leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Santa Fe 66: Krakow leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Santa Fe 22: Krakow leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Santa Fe 70: Krakow leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Santa Fe 45: Krakow leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Santa Fe 40: Krakow leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Santa Fe 30: Krakow leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow and Santa Fe are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Santa Fe.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on wellness 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
16 hdaylight a day

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowSanta Fe
Official languagePolish-
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m2,134 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowSanta Fe
City population804,23787,505
People per km²2,459645
Museums within 10 km11310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

Where else could you go?

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.