Kraków: how to get there and around
Airports, stations, ports, where the hotels are and what the numbers say, from public data rather than a brochure.
Kraków is a city of 816,614 people in Poland (Lesser Poland), 219 m (719 ft) above sea level. The nearest large airport is Kraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK), 11 km (7 mi) from the centre. It has 10 railway stations on record, including Kraków Główny railway station. Our booking partner lists 2,532+ places to stay.
Key facts
Daylight in Kraków runs from about 8 h 8 min a day in late December to 16 h 27 min in late June (computed for 50.06° latitude), which matters more than the forecast when a day is built around one flight or one crossing.
Getting there
Kraków is served by 2 airports with scheduled flights within 100 km. The closest large one is Kraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK), 11 km (7 mi) from the centre, with a longest runway of 8,366 ft, which limits it to short and medium-haul aircraft. The alternatives are Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport (KTW, 76 km).
Flights to Kraków: every airport, routes and times
By rail: stations on record include Kraków Główny railway station, Kraków Nowa Huta train station, Kraków Mydlnik-Wapiennik train station, Kraków Płaszów train station, Kraków Lotnisko, Kraków Batowice railway station. Trains to Kraków
Buses to Kraków · Driving and car hire
Where to stay
Our booking partner lists 2,532+ places to stay in Kraków (statistics below are from the first 1,000). Of the 605 with a star rating, the largest group is 4-star (356), and 24 are five-star. Across 850 properties with at least 50 reviews, the average guest score is 9 out of 10. Guests have left 978,310 reviews in total.
Hotels in Kraków: the full picture, and book
Our booking partner lists 79 hostels in Kraków, out of 2,532 places to stay of every kind — 3.1% of everywhere it lists in the city, around the middle of the range for the cities we hold figures for. Across 52 hostels with at least 50 reviews, the average guest score is 8.0 out of 10, 1.0 below the 9.0 its hotels average. Guests have left 100,261 reviews across them.
Hostels in Kraków: the full picture, and book
What people come for
| Sight | Visitors a year | Year |
|---|---|---|
| National Museum in Kraków | 679,729 | 2021 |
| Galicia Jewish Museum | 30,000 | — |
The busiest is National Museum in Kraków at 679,729 visitors in 2021. Figures are the latest each site has published, so they are not all for the same year.
UNESCO World Heritage in the city: Kraków Old Town.
Tours, tickets and day trips from Kraków
Nearby cities, and how to get between them
- Budapest, 292 km (Hungary) — flights · tours
- Warsaw, 252 km — flights · tours
- Vienna, 331 km (Austria) — flights
- Prague, 394 km (Czechia) — flights
- Lviv, 293 km (Ukraine) — tours
- Wrocław, 236 km — tours
- Łódź, 193 km — tours
- Poznań, 334 km
- Bratislava, 296 km (Slovakia) — tours
- Brno, 258 km (Czechia) — tours
Twin towns and sister cities: Solothurn, Frankfurt, Vilnius, Bordeaux, Bratislava, Budapest, Cambridge, Curitiba, Cusco, Edinburgh, Fez, Florence, Gothenburg Municipality, Grozny.
Common questions
Which airport serves Kraków?
Kraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK), 11 km (7 mi) from the centre, plus 1 other airport with scheduled flights within 100 km.
How big is Kraków?
About 816,614 people live in Kraków, across 327 km² (GeoNames and Wikidata).
What time zone is Kraków in?
Europe/Warsaw, currently UTC+2.
What currency is used in Kraków?
The Zloty (PLN). Traffic drives on the right.
Are there hostels in Kraków?
79 of them, bookable on this site. Hostels in Kraków.
How many hotels are there in Kraków?
Our booking partner lists 2,532 or more places to stay in Kraków, bookable on this site.
Which cities are near Kraków?
Budapest (292 km), Warsaw (252 km), Vienna (331 km), Prague (394 km), Lviv (293 km).
Where these facts come from
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, elevation, time zone, postal codes
- Wikidata (CC0): area, sister cities, visitor numbers, heritage listings, stations and ports
- OurAirports (public domain): airports, runways
- Natural Earth (public domain): map outlines
Data compiled 14 September 2026. Hotel and hostel figures are from our booking partner’s catalogue on that date. Journey times on this page are estimates from distance, not timetables; check the operator before you rely on one.