Mash Room ★ 4.1
€€kazimierzMon-Wed 15:00-23:00, Thu 15:00-24:00, Fri 14:00-02:00, Sat 12:00-02:00, Sun 12:00-22:00
Mash Room on Plac Wolnica in Kraków's Kazimierz is the graffiti-painted Kazimierz club with a sprawling outdoor beer garden upstairs and a basement techno room that runs Friday and Saturday nights.
Tip: Beer garden is the early sit; basement opens late Fri-Sat with ticketed lineups. Heaters on the courtyard for cold months.
Klub Re ★ 4.3
€€stare-miastoConcert nights door from 19:00, club nights to 04:00
Klub Re on ul. św. Krzyża in Kraków's Stare Miasto is the small Old Town concert club known for booking touring indie, electronica and hip-hop acts in a stone-walled room with a long fairy-lit garden out back.
Tip: The summer garden is free entry; ticketed shows in the indoor room. Concerts often sell out, book through klubre.pl.
Forty Kleparz ★ 4.1
€€kleparzThu 18:00-04:00, Fri-Sat 20:00-04:00, closed Mon-Wed and Sun
Forty Kleparz north of the Old Town in Kraków is the 19th-century Habsburg fort reborn as a 500-capacity music club, with concerts, DJ nights and open-air gardens through the warm months.
Tip: Closed Mon-Wed; check the eventim listings for the Thursday-Saturday programme. The summer stage opens June through September.
Klub Studio ★ 4.2
€€stare-miastoMon-Sat 12:00-24:00, Sun 18:00-24:00, concert door varies
Klub Studio on the AGH student campus in Kraków is the 1,500-capacity Polish concert hall booking Jack White, Fat Freddy's Drop and Gogol Bordello through 2026, with a main hall, balcony tier and adjoining bar.
Tip: Doors usually 90 minutes before showtime; balcony seats are the easier sightline. Closest tram is Czarna Wieś or Miasteczko Studenckie AGH.
Harris Piano Jazz Bar ★ 4.6
€€stare-miastoMon-Fri 13:00 to last guest, Sat-Sun 12:00 to last guest
Harris Piano Jazz Bar on Kraków's Rynek Główny is the cellar room under the Main Square running live concerts every single night since 1997 and headlining the Summer Jazz Festival each June and July.
Tip: Free entry to the jam sessions on Mon and Wed from 21:30; ticketed concerts most other nights from 21:00. Steps down off the square.
Piec Art Acoustic Jazz Club ★ 4.5
€€stare-miastoDaily 18:00-02:00
Piec Art on ul. Szewska in Kraków's Stare Miasto is the vaulted-brick acoustic jazz cellar opened in the 1990s, with live concerts most weeknights and a regular Wednesday-Thursday programme of Polish and visiting trios.
Tip: Arrive 19:30 for a candlelit table near the piano; sets usually start 21:00. The room favours acoustic over amplification.