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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Krakow or Stockholm?

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 Stockholm for

  • beaches
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow and Stockholm are level on 77.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Stockholm 57: Krakow leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Stockholm 68: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Stockholm 30: Krakow leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Krakow
58match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowStockholm
Official languagePolishSwedish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m22 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowStockholm
City population804,237984,748
People per km²2,4595,260
Museums within 10 km113266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.