VacationSelector

Brussels or Prague?

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

Your match

Brussels
56
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

BrusselsPrague
Beaches & swimming. Brussels and Prague are level on 0.
BrusselsPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km07
Coast distance56 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 6 points.6
BrusselsPrague
Score8175
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7791,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4429
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 8 points.8
BrusselsPrague
Score8072
Museums within 10 km120138
Museums within 2 km of centre59100
Share of museums within 2 km %4972
Unesco sites within 50 km101
Nightlife. Prague leads by 9 points.9
BrusselsPrague
Score6877
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4142,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8621,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6165
Nightclubs within 4 km84123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 14 points.14
BrusselsPrague
Score3145
Protected land share 50 km %612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %18
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 19 points.19
BrusselsPrague
Score5675
Tourist attractions within 2 km2854
Park area within 2 km65 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 3 points.3
BrusselsPrague
Score7376
Notable places within 2 km254310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 15 points.15
BrusselsPrague
Score6075
Price level global76.255.2
Daily budget€180€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 4 points.4
BrusselsPrague
Score5761
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months07
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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€179-197
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 45 m
€177-223
BRU · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 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

MeasureBrusselsPrague
Official languageFrench, German, DutchCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m235 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsPrague
City population195,5461,397,880
People per km²5,9082,817
Museums within 10 km10588
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km101
Distinct cuisines in the centre10989

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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.