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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Krakow or Tunis?

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

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Tunis for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Tunis 76: Krakow leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Tunis 33: Krakow leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Tunis 45: Krakow leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Tunis 38: Krakow leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Tunis 48: Krakow leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Tunis 38: Krakow leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Tunis.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Krakow
58match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Tunis
56match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowTunis
Official languagePolishArabic
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation219 m4 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowTunis
City population804,237602,560
People per km²2,4592,834
Museums within 10 km11316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.