VacationSelector

Bologna or Prague?

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

Your match

Bologna
52
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

BolognaPrague
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Prague are level on 0.
BolognaPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km27
Coast distance74 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 17 points.17
BolognaPrague
Score5875
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8221,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2029
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 5 points.5
BolognaPrague
Score6772
Museums within 10 km58138
Museums within 2 km of centre43100
Share of museums within 2 km %7472
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Prague leads by 24 points.24
BolognaPrague
Score5377
Drinking venues within 4 km7202,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5311,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7465
Nightclubs within 4 km30123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 6 points.6
BolognaPrague
Score3945
Protected land share 50 km %712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %18
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 20 points.20
BolognaPrague
Score5575
Tourist attractions within 2 km3254
Park area within 2 km119 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 16 points.16
BolognaPrague
Score6076
Notable places within 2 km120310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 7 points.7
BolognaPrague
Score6875
Price level global64.955.2
Daily budget€155€107
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BolognaPrague
Score6761
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
€96-199
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€63-136
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€74-144
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€130
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
MaleMLE
9 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
9 h 30 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaPrague
Official languageItalianCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m235 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaPrague
City population387,9711,397,880
People per km²2,7542,817
Museums within 10 km6688
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6289

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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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.