VacationSelector

Krakow or The Hague?

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, 1 point apart

Krakow
58
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

KrakowThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
KrakowThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km934
Coast distance456 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 2 points.2
KrakowThe Hague
Score6870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3043
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 13 points.13
KrakowThe Hague
Score7562
Museums within 10 km8446
Museums within 2 km of centre6926
Share of museums within 2 km %8257
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 11 points.11
KrakowThe Hague
Score5746
Drinking venues within 4 km836511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8356
Nightclubs within 4 km5419
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 8 points.8
KrakowThe Hague
Score4654
Protected land share 50 km %148
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km79 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 18 points.18
KrakowThe Hague
Score7456
Tourist attractions within 2 km7710
Park area within 2 km79 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km47
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 14 points.14
KrakowThe Hague
Score6854
Notable places within 2 km19886
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
KrakowThe Hague
Score7958
Price level global4979.2
Daily budget€133€181
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 4 points.4
KrakowThe Hague
Score5854
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months40
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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowThe Hague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
3 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€155-209
1 stop
AMS · 40 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

MeasureKrakowThe Hague
Official languagePolishDutch
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation219 m1 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowThe Hague
City population804,237548,320
People per km²2,4595,589
Museums within 10 km11454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre6877
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. 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.