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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

Krakow or Wellington?

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
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Wellington for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’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, Wellington 33: Wellington leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Wellington 44: Krakow leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Wellington 45: Krakow leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Wellington 78: Wellington leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Wellington 40: Krakow leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Wellington 68: Krakow leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Wellington 42: Krakow leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Wellington 33: Krakow leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Wellington 30: Krakow leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Wellington.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Wellington
49match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowWellington
Official languagePolishEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyZloty (PLN)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsCE50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number112111
Elevation219 m0 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowWellington
City population804,237216,200
People per km²2,459487
Museums within 10 km11312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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.