Where a car takes you from Kraków
These are the day trips from Kraków on our own pages where a car earns its keep. Trains reach some of them; a car reaches all of them, on your own clock.
- Wieliczka Wieliczka, 20 minutes from Kraków by train, holds the UNESCO-listed 13th-century salt mine
- Zakopane Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains, 2 hours from Kraków, is highlander Polish country: smoked oscypek sheep cheese, kwaśnica cabbage soup, slow-roasted
- Oświęcim (Auschwitz) Oświęcim, the town adjacent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, is a 90-minute bus from Kraków
- Tarnów Tarnów, 80 minutes east of Kraków by train, is a Galician-Polish Renaissance town with a preserved Jewish quarter, town-hall museum and bistros around
- Ojców National Park Ojców National Park north of Kraków, 45 minutes by car, is the limestone valley with castle ruins and a string of fish-farm restaurants serving smoked
Booking a car in Kraków
We compare through one partner rather than listing every broker. Desks sit at the airport and in town, and the headline rate below is theirs, not ours.
- From
- USD 5.33 a day
- Desks on site
- Alamo, Dollar, Keddy, National, Sixt, Surprice
Rates are the partner's headline price at our last check (2026-10-02) and move with dates, car class and insurance. We earn a commission if you book, at no cost to you.