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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Krakow or Yokohama?

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

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Yokohama 55: Krakow leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Yokohama 44: Krakow leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Yokohama 55: Krakow leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Krakow
58match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowYokohama
Official languagePolishJapanese
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation219 m24 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowYokohama
City population804,2373,757,630
People per km²2,4598,585
Museums within 10 km11338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
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.