Cities similar to Kraków

Ranked by how close each city sits to Kraków across ten measured metrics: sex ratio, cost, rent, salary, safety, air, green space, places to eat and universities. Closer is more alike, not better.

Wrocław is the closest match, 5.4 percentile points from Kraków across 10 shared metrics. The two sit within eight percentile points of each other on safety, salary against local costs and local salary. The band widens slowly from there: the last city listed sits 16.6 away, so these 10 are a cluster rather than a ranking with a clear winner. 5 of the 10 are also in Poland; the other 5 are abroad. Distance says how alike two cities measure, never which one is better to live in: a city can be close to Kraków because both score badly on the same things.

921 cities ranked by male-to-female ratio, 848 of them measured below national level, 104 country deep-dives.

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WrocławPoland5.410safety, salary against local costs, local salary
WarsawPoland5.810safety, salary against local costs, local salary
ZagrebCroatia8.310local salary, universities, city-centre rent
PoznańPoland10.110women aged 20–39, local salary, salary against local costs
MoscowRussia10.910clean air, salary against local costs, local salary
GdańskPoland15.310women aged 20–39, cost of living, salary against local costs
ŁódźPoland15.510green space, universities, local salary
Taipei CityTaiwan16.110universities, clean air, local salary
BucharestRomania16.510places to eat, universities, women aged 20–39
PragueCzechia16.610safety, universities, places to eat

Distance is the root-mean-square gap in percentile points across the metrics both cities carry, so 0 would be an exact match and 100 the opposite end of every scale. A pair scored on fewer than 8 shared metrics is not listed.

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