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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Krakow or Sapporo?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Sapporo for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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, Sapporo 28: Sapporo leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Sapporo 40: Krakow leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Sapporo 62: Krakow leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Sapporo 86: Sapporo leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Sapporo 64: Krakow leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Sapporo 72: Sapporo leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Sapporo 58: Sapporo leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Sapporo 60: Krakow leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Sapporo 44: Krakow leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 44 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Sapporo.

Your match

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

Krakow
58match

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

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness and food and drink 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

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowSapporo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowSapporo
Official languagePolishJapanese
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation219 m5 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowSapporo
City population804,2371,959,313
People per km²2,4591,747
Museums within 10 km11333
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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.