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Krakow or Strasbourg?

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

Your match

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

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

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

KrakowStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Krakow and Strasbourg are level on 0.
KrakowStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km99
Coast distance456 km398 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 1 points.1
KrakowStrasbourg
Score6867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3036
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 34 points.34
KrakowStrasbourg
Score7541
Museums within 10 km8423
Museums within 2 km of centre6914
Share of museums within 2 km %8261
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
KrakowStrasbourg
Score5736
Drinking venues within 4 km836305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8387
Nightclubs within 4 km5417
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 8 points.8
KrakowStrasbourg
Score4654
Protected land share 50 km %1437
Landscape blanket share 50 km %135
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km79 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 36 points.36
KrakowStrasbourg
Score7438
Tourist attractions within 2 km779
Park area within 2 km79 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 10 points.10
KrakowStrasbourg
Score6858
Notable places within 2 km198109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 17 points.17
KrakowStrasbourg
Score7962
Price level global4973.7
Daily budget€133€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 5 points.5
KrakowStrasbourg
Score5863
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm34 mm to 77 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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowStrasbourg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 45 m
no fares
KTW · 76 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
NiceNCE
2 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
ColomboCMB
9 h 20 m
no fares
KTW · 76 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureKrakowStrasbourg
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 m132 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowStrasbourg
City population804,237293,771
People per km²2,4593,752
Museums within 10 km11421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6887

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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.