VacationSelector

Krakow or Vancouver?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Vancouver
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.

KrakowVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
KrakowVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km9109
Coast distance456 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 6 points.6
KrakowVancouver
Score6874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0321,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3035
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 41 points.41
KrakowVancouver
Score7534
Museums within 10 km8427
Museums within 2 km of centre6915
Share of museums within 2 km %8256
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Krakow and Vancouver are level on 57.
KrakowVancouver
Score5757
Drinking venues within 4 km836848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8371
Nightclubs within 4 km5444
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 31 points.31
KrakowVancouver
Score4677
Protected land share 50 km %1419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km79 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
KrakowVancouver
Score7453
Tourist attractions within 2 km7715
Park area within 2 km79 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 20 points.20
KrakowVancouver
Score6848
Notable places within 2 km19863
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 25 points.25
KrakowVancouver
Score7954
Price level global4984
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 5 points.5
KrakowVancouver
Score5853
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureKrakowVancouver
Official languagePolishFrench, English
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m2 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowVancouver
City population804,237662,248
People per km²2,4595,759
Museums within 10 km11426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6885
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.