See the real cost of the wrong district
A lower rent on the outskirts often disappears into a longer commute - the ticket, the fuel and your time. This free calculator combines rent, commute time and the value of your hour to show you the full cost of living in a district before you rent, not just the price in the listing.
What a wrong district costs you
A lower rent often means a longer commute - and your time costs too. Move the sliders to your own numbers and see what a wrong choice really costs over a year or two.
Over 24 months you can lose
28 568 zł
That's 405 hours in transit - 16,9 full days of your time gone.
The report costs 69 zł. On your numbers it pays for itself in ~2 days.
Report: 69 zł
Usually, the higher the rent, the shorter the commute. But sometimes you get the worse case - expensive and far at once. The report checks both together.
These are estimates - move the sliders to your own numbers. The default rents are an illustrative reference band from our Krakow data; the commute cost and the value of your time are yours to set.
Why count this? Because flats get compared by rent, yet you also live on the way - to work and to campus. 2 flats at the same price can differ by hundreds of zlotys a month once you add the ticket, the fuel and the lost time.
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The calculator shows the scale. The report shows where to look.
A short conversation turns your answers into a ranking of areas: your 5 best, 3 weakest, warnings and a checklist for viewings. You know where to look before you travel to view.
Want to try it first? The demo is completely free and requires no sign-up.
Your best match
79.8%Dębniki
A direct ride to campus, a room within budget, and the most greenery in the area.
2. Krowodrza79.5%
3. Grzegórzki76.4%