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KRAKÓW – PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Offical name:
Królewskie Stołeczne Miasto Kraków (The Royal Capital City of Krakow).
Names in other languages:
Cracow (English), Krakau (German, Dutch, Afrikaans), Cracovie (French), Cracovia (Latin, Italian, Spanish, Romanian), Cracóvia (Portugalese), Kraków (Swedish, Danish, Norvegian, Gaelic, Turkish, Estonian), Krakov (Czech, Slovak, Croat), Krakova (Lettish), Krokuva (Lithuanian), Krakkó (Hungarian), Krakova (Suomi), Krakovo (Esperanto), Κρακοβία (Greek), Крáков (Russian), Краків (Ukrainian), Краков (Serbian, Bulgarian), კრაკოვი (Armenian), קרקוב (Hebrew), کراکوف (Arabic), クラクフ(Japanese).
Location:
Southern Poland.
Geographic coordinates:
50 0 04’ N, 19 0 56’ E
Altitude:
212 m (Main Square)
238 m (Wawel Hill)
Inhabitants:
755,000
Climate:
Moderate, similar to that of Germany. Cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters with frequent snow precipitation; mild, sometimes hot summers with frequent showers and thunderstorms.
In September the weather is generally fine and sunny, and temperatures vary from 100C to 260C but rain and/or storms are also possible.
Mean temperatures for successive months in Kraków
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Month
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Jan
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Feb
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Mar
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Apr
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May
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Jun
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Jul
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Aug
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Sep
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Oct
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Nov
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Dec
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Highest mean temperature day (°C)
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+1,0
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+2,9
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+7,8
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+13,5
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+19,2
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+21,7
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+23,4
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+23,4
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+18,5
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+13,5
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+6,4
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+2,4
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Lowest mean temperature night (°C)
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-5,5
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-4,2
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-0,9
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+3,1
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+8,0
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+11,1
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+12,7
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+12,3
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+8,8
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+4,3
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-0,2
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-3,5
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Precipitation (mm)
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34,7
snow
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29,7
snow
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35,1
rain & snow
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50,1
rain & snow
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73,7
rain
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94,0
rain
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81,3
rain
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76,2
rain
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59,9
rain
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49,4
rain
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40,3
rain & snow
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37,9
snow
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Rainy days
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15
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14
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14
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14
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14
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15
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15
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13
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12
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12
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15
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16
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Source: World Meteorological Organization
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Ethnic groups:
Polish: over 99 %, others: less than 1 %.
Languages:
Polish is the oficial and commonly used language. All people use the standard language. Many people, especially young speak English and German, some middle-aged people ca speak Russian.
Religions:
Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant, Greek Catholic, Orthodox, and Armenian minorities 5%
Telephone system:
Developed fixed-line system completed with mobile-cellular service.
International code: 48.
Domestic code: 12.
Internal direct dialing with automatic extension.
Railway:
Main railway station name: Kraków Główny (Kraków Main Station).
Direct international train connections: Vienna, Prague, Ostrava, Bratislava, Košice, Berlin, Budapest, Miskolc, Leopolis (Lwów, Lviv, Lemberg), Kiev.
Airport:
Airport name: Kraków-Balice, Jan Paweł II (codes: KRK, EPKR).
Distance : 10 km from the city centre.
Direct connection with: Amsterdam (AMS), Athens (ATH), Belfast (BFS), Bergen (BGO), Berlin Tegel (TXL), Birmingham (BHX), Bristol (BRS), Brussels (BRU), Chicago (ORD), Cologne (CGN), Dortmund (DTM), Dublin (DUB), Düsseldorf (DUS), Düsseldorf Weeze, East Midlands, Edinburgh (EDI), Frankfurt (FRA), Glasgow (GLA), Kopenhaven (CPH), Liverpool (LPL), London Heathrow (LHR), London Gatwick (LGW), London Luton (LTN), London Stansted (STN), Milan Bergamo (BGY), Munich (MUC), Newcastle (NCL), New York, Oslo, Oslo Trop (TRF), Paris Charles de Gaule (CDG), Paris (Orly), Prague (PRG), Reykyavik, Rome (FCO), Shannon (SNN), Stavanger (SVG), Stockholm Skavasta (NYO), Stuttgart (STR), Vienna (VIE), Warsaw (WAW).
Transfer from airport to the city centre : direct train (15 min), metropolitan bus (30 – 40 min).
Auxilliary airport: Katowice-Pyrzowice (codes: KTW, EPKT)
Distance : 80 km from the centre of Kraków.
Direct connection with: Barcelona (BCN), Birmingham (BHX), Bologna (BLQ), Brussels Chaleoi (CRL), Burgas, Cologne Bonn (CGN), Cork (ORK), Doncaster Sheffield (DSA), Dortmund (DTM), Dublin (DUB), Düsseldorf (DUS), Eindhoven (EIN), Forli (FRL), Frankfurt (FRA), Frankfurt Hahn (HHN), Heraklion, Kiev (KPB), Liverpool (LPN), London Luton (LTN), London Stansted (STN), Malmö (MMX), Memmingen (FMM), Milan Bergamo (BGY), Munich (MUC), Oslo Trop (TRF), Paris Beauvais (BVA), Rome Ciampino (CIA), Stockholm Skavsta (NYO), Torino (TRN), Venice Treviso (TSF), Warsaw (WAW).
Transfer from the Katowice-Pyrzowice Airport to the centre of Kraków: bus (90 - 120 min).
The best non-direct air connections for Kraków are realised via Warsaw (WAW), London (LHR, LGW), Frankfurt (FRA), Munich (MUC), and Vienna (VIE) airports.
Coaches:
The bus/coach station is situated in the direct vicinity of the Main Railway Station.
There are direct international coach connections with over 800 European cities, in Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, U.K., Ireland, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. The transfer is served by a number of licensed carriers (e.g. “Sindbad”, “Eurolines”, “Globtourist”, “Rudnik Tumay”, “Orbis”, “Jordan”, “Agat”, “Delta Travel”, “Becker Reisen”, “Baltic Bus”, “Bermuda”, etc.). Coach tickets are relatively cheap, and therefore they represent the economic option of transfer.
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