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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Krakow or Tokyo?

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

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Tokyo leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 51 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Tokyo 48: Krakow leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Krakow
58match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping and food and drink 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowTokyo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowTokyo
Official languagePolishJapanese
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation219 m6 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowTokyo
City population804,23714,264,798
People per km²2,4596,501
Museums within 10 km113192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.