VacationSelector

Krakow or Sofia?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Krakow
58
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sofia
56
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

KrakowSofia
Beaches & swimming. Krakow and Sofia are level on 0.
KrakowSofia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance456 km214 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 4 points.4
KrakowSofia
Score6864
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3028
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 18 points.18
KrakowSofia
Score7557
Museums within 10 km8451
Museums within 2 km of centre6940
Share of museums within 2 km %8278
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 4 points.4
KrakowSofia
Score5761
Drinking venues within 4 km836958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8363
Nightclubs within 4 km54102
Nature & day trips. Sofia leads by 5 points.5
KrakowSofia
Score4651
Protected land share 50 km %1412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %14
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km79 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
KrakowSofia
Score7455
Tourist attractions within 2 km7720
Park area within 2 km79 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 11 points.11
KrakowSofia
Score6857
Notable places within 2 km198104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 20 points.20
KrakowSofia
Score7999
Price level global4921.4
Daily budget€133€77
Year-round weather. Sofia leads by 6 points.6
KrakowSofia
Score5864
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm36 mm to 78 mm
Dry months43
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sofia
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowSofia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€41-70
SOF · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 8 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureKrakowSofia
Official languagePolishBulgarian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m560 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowSofia
City population804,2371,213,134
People per km²2,4592,466
Museums within 10 km11442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6851

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.