VacationSelector

Krakow or York?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

KrakowYork
Beaches & swimming. Krakow and York are level on 0.
KrakowYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km92
Coast distance456 km50 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 14 points.14
KrakowYork
Score6854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3031
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 29 points.29
KrakowYork
Score7546
Museums within 10 km8418
Museums within 2 km of centre6916
Share of museums within 2 km %8289
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 14 points.14
KrakowYork
Score5743
Drinking venues within 4 km836450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8378
Nightclubs within 4 km5414
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 13 points.13
KrakowYork
Score4633
Protected land share 50 km %1417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %116
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km79 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 31 points.31
KrakowYork
Score7443
Tourist attractions within 2 km7713
Park area within 2 km79 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 29 points.29
KrakowYork
Score6839
Notable places within 2 km19837
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 25 points.25
KrakowYork
Score7954
Price level global4984.9
Daily budget€133—
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 2 points.2
KrakowYork
Score5856
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months41
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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M
J
J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowYork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AgadirAGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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.

Before you go

MeasureKrakowYork
Official languagePolishEnglish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation219 m25 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowYork
City population804,237208,400
People per km²2,459766
Museums within 10 km11424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre6854

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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. 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.