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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Krakow or West Palm Beach?

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
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, West Palm Beach 52: Krakow leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, West Palm Beach 42: Krakow leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, West Palm Beach 36: Krakow leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, West Palm Beach 58: Krakow leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, West Palm Beach 55: Krakow leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, West Palm Beach 38: Krakow leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, West Palm Beach 23: Krakow leads by 49 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, West Palm Beach 47: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and West Palm Beach.

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 getting around with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and shopping 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 seasea
16 hdaylight a day

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowWest Palm Beach
Official languagePolish-
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m6 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowWest Palm Beach
City population804,237117,415
People per km²2,459786
Museums within 10 km1134
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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.