VacationSelector

Berlin or Prague?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Berlin
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Prague
62
match

Wins on value for money and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Berlin if you want the denser walk-around centre, more museums and wider day-trip range: 4 UNESCO-listed places within reach against Prague's 1.

Choose Prague if eating out matters more than museum-hopping: about twice as many restaurants near the centre, drier winters and springs, and a nightlife you can cover on foot. Berlin's is spread across the city.

Scoreboard

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

BerlinPrague
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Prague are level on 0.
BerlinPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km177
Coast distance142 km10,000 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Prague leads by 5 points.5
BerlinPrague
Score7075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3329
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 7 points.7
BerlinPrague
Score7972
Museums within 10 km200138
Museums within 2 km of centre81100
Share of museums within 2 km %4172
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Prague leads by 1 points.1
BerlinPrague
Score7677
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1142,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7191,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3465
Nightclubs within 4 km135123
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 4 points.4
BerlinPrague
Score4945
Protected land share 50 km %2012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %168
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 1 points.1
BerlinPrague
Score7675
Tourist attractions within 2 km5454
Park area within 2 km141 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 8 points.8
BerlinPrague
Score8476
Notable places within 2 km486310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 15 points.15
BerlinPrague
Score6075
Price level global75.955.2
Daily budget€163€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 1 points.1
BerlinPrague
Score6061
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months37
0255075100

Where they differ

Berlin puts about twice as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, and has somewhat more museums, with 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Prague's 1. The land around it is more protected, 20% against 12%.

Prague concentrates its own museums tightly around the centre and has about twice as many restaurants near it, with more park space close in. The national daily estimate for Czechia is €107 against €163 for Germany, a country-level price level rather than a city measurement.

Where they are alike

Neither is a place to swim. Neither has a month with sea at 21°C or more, so the beaches nearby, 17 around Berlin and 7 around Prague, are a day out rather than the reason to go.

For families, nightlife and weather they sit close. Each has a similar number of attractions near the centre and about as many bars and clubs, though Berlin's are spread well beyond it and Prague's cluster close in; both peak in July at 25°C.

Which traveller are you?

History-first travellers should take Berlin. It has somewhat more museums, about twice as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, and 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Prague's 1.

Anyone travelling to eat and go out late is better served in Prague, with about twice as many restaurants near the centre and bars and clubs clustered close in; Berlin's are scattered, so nights need transport.

Families split fine either way. Berlin has 5 theme parks within reach against Prague's 3 and more protected land around it; Prague answers with more park space near the centre and short distances between attractions.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €163 for Germany and €107 for Czechia, are national estimates of restaurant and hotel price levels, not measurements of Berlin or Prague. A capital or a heavily visited city can sit further from its own national average than these two figures sit from each other, so they cannot tell you which city will cost more.

The beach counts mislead too. Both cities list beaches within reach, but neither has a month with sea at 21°C or more, so neither supports a trip built around swimming. The same holds in high summer: the warmest months in both cities are also among the wettest.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Berlin is the better summer bet. June to August runs 23-25°C, and Berlin stays drier through it, about 53mm in June against Prague's 80mm, with a similar gap in August.

Prague is the pick for the cold and shoulder months. January to April bring 22-31mm of rain a month against Berlin's 29-49mm, so winter sightseeing is less interrupted, though Prague's January high is 2°C against Berlin's 4°C. Both cities ease off at similar rates in autumn.

Getting there

Flying fromBerlinPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 15 m
€145-185
BER · 19 km
3 h 0 m
€179-197
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
€208-225
1 stop
BER · 19 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
9 h 25 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

MeasureBerlinPrague
Official languageGermanCzech
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
Elevation34 m235 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinPrague
City population3,782,2021,397,880
People per km²4,2442,817
Museums within 10 km15888
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8689

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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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.