VacationSelector

Krakow or Valencia?

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

Your match

Krakow
58
match

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

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

KrakowValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
KrakowValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km912
Coast distance456 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 10 points.10
KrakowValencia
Score6878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0321,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3033
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 20 points.20
KrakowValencia
Score7555
Museums within 10 km8459
Museums within 2 km of centre6926
Share of museums within 2 km %8244
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 13 points.13
KrakowValencia
Score5770
Drinking venues within 4 km8361,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8363
Nightclubs within 4 km54108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 7 points.7
KrakowValencia
Score4653
Protected land share 50 km %1410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km79 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 32 points.32
KrakowValencia
Score7442
Tourist attractions within 2 km7712
Park area within 2 km79 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 16 points.16
KrakowValencia
Score6852
Notable places within 2 km19878
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 8 points.8
KrakowValencia
Score7971
Price level global4960.8
Daily budget€133€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 26 points.26
KrakowValencia
Score5884
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months48
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 45 m
no fares
KTW · 76 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
3 h 40 m
€122-139
ALC · 133 km
EindhovenEIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 20 m
€118-165
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 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

MeasureKrakowValencia
Official languagePolishSpanish
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
Elevation219 m15 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowValencia
City population804,237840,792
People per km²2,4596,242
Museums within 10 km11446
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre6892
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.