Best time to visit Kraków

Kraków is a city of two halves. September scores 80 and January scores 22 — a 58-point swing, which is the difference between a holiday and an endurance test. The month you pick matters more here than almost anywhere. The good window runs May to September — 5 months within ten points of the best.

August is the warmest month at 25.9 °C and January the coolest at 0.7 °C — a 25.2 °C spread across the year. At the other end, 110 nights a year fall below freezing: the winter here is a real one.

There is a real wet season here. May to July carry the rain — up to 16 wet days in a month — while February, March, April, September, October, November and December drop as low as 10. That 6-day gap is the biggest single difference between a good month and a bad one in Kraków, and it moves further than the temperature does.

Daylight swings hard — 16.3 hours at midsummer against 8.1 at midwinter. That 8.2-hour difference changes how much fits into a day more than the temperature does.

The three strongest months are September, August, May. The one to think twice about is January. Each month below has its own page with rainfall reliability, extremes, daylight and crowd levels.

Kraków month by month