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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Krakow or Saint-Tropez?

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
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’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, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Saint-Tropez 48: Krakow leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Saint-Tropez 35: Krakow leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Saint-Tropez 60: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Saint-Tropez 57: Krakow leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Saint-Tropez 42: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Saint-Tropez 32: Krakow leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Saint-Tropez 8: Krakow leads by 64 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Saint-Tropez 18: Krakow leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Saint-Tropez 35: Krakow leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Saint-Tropez.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches and shopping 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

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Saint-Tropez 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.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowSaint-Tropez
Official languagePolishFrench
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m0 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowSaint-Tropez
City population804,2373,582
People per km²2,459320
Museums within 10 km1134
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. 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.