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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Krakow or Valencia?

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
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Valencia 68: Krakow leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Valencia 66: Krakow leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Valencia 60: Krakow leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Valencia 70: Krakow leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Valencia 57: Krakow leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow and Valencia are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Valencia 42: Valencia leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Valencia.

Your match

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

Krakow
58match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches 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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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 centre132 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 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 km11345
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.