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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Krakow or Savannah?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Savannah for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’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, Savannah 55: Savannah leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Savannah 68: Krakow leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Savannah 52: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Savannah 48: Krakow leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Savannah 60: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Savannah 50: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Savannah 58: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Savannah 42: Krakow leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Savannah 35: Krakow leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Savannah 40: Krakow leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Savannah 40: Savannah leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Savannah.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Savannah
51match

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 seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowSavannah

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowSavannah
Official languagePolish-
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m15 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowSavannah
City population804,237147,780
People per km²2,459524
Museums within 10 km11319
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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