VacationSelector

Barcelona or Prague?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Prague
62
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BarcelonaPrague
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 65 points.65
BarcelonaPrague
Score650
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km207
Coast distance2 km10,000 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 15 points.15
BarcelonaPrague
Score9075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,7861,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4129
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 4 points.4
BarcelonaPrague
Score6872
Museums within 10 km105138
Museums within 2 km of centre49100
Share of museums within 2 km %4772
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 5 points.5
BarcelonaPrague
Score8277
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7112,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,6411,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6165
Nightclubs within 4 km245123
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 5 points.5
BarcelonaPrague
Score5045
Protected land share 50 km %1012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 10 points.10
BarcelonaPrague
Score6575
Tourist attractions within 2 km6054
Park area within 2 km49 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 3 points.3
BarcelonaPrague
Score7376
Notable places within 2 km258310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 4 points.4
BarcelonaPrague
Score7175
Price level global60.855.2
Daily budget€122€107
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 17 points.17
BarcelonaPrague
Score7861
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months57
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
PalmaPMI
55 m
€40-57
BCN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 12 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 55 m
€459-799
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 55 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
€282-445
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
5 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBarcelonaPrague
Official languageSpanishCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation9 m235 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaPrague
City population1,731,6491,397,880
People per km²17,0942,817
Museums within 10 km9588
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre12889
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.