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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Krakow or St. Pete Beach?

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
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, St. Pete Beach 40: Krakow leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, St. Pete Beach 18: Krakow leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, St. Pete Beach 28: Krakow leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, St. Pete Beach 57: Krakow leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, St. Pete Beach 58: Krakow leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, St. Pete Beach 30: Krakow leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, St. Pete Beach 20: Krakow leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, St. Pete Beach 32: Krakow leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, St. Pete Beach 20: Krakow leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, St. Pete Beach 42: St. Pete Beach leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and St. Pete Beach.

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 getting around with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and families 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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowSt. Pete Beach
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 m2 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowSt. Pete Beach
City population804,2378,879
People per km²2,459173
Museums within 10 km1132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.