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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Fishermen on the rocks at Playa Santa Teresa at sunset, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
Santa Teresa, Costa RicaFishermen on the rocks at Playa Santa Teresa at sunset

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Santa Teresa, Costa Rica by Christopher Crouzet, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Krakow or Santa Teresa, Costa Rica?

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

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Santa Teresa, Costa Rica for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Teresa, Costa Rica’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 Teresa, Costa Rica 84: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 40: Krakow leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 4: Krakow leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 30: Krakow leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 78: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 12: Krakow leads by 64 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 35: Krakow leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 15: Krakow leads by 59 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 12: Krakow leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 25: Krakow leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 8: Krakow leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 70: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Santa Teresa, Costa Rica.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
34match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
218 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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 Teresa, Costa Rica's temperatures are measured 52 km from the centre, at Puntarenas.

Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 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 Teresa, Costa Rica: 1961-1990 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puntarenas (51.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowSanta Teresa, Costa Rica
Official languagePolishSpanish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m19 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)113 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowSanta Teresa, Costa Rica
City population804,237-
People per km²2,459-
Museums within 10 km1130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.