VacationSelector

Calgary or Prague?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

CalgaryPrague
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Prague are level on 0.
CalgaryPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km47
Coast distance649 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 9 points.9
CalgaryPrague
Score6675
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7491,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3629
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 63 points.63
CalgaryPrague
Score972
Museums within 10 km8138
Museums within 2 km of centre3100
Share of museums within 2 km %3872
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Prague leads by 33 points.33
CalgaryPrague
Score4477
Drinking venues within 4 km4652,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3431,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7465
Nightclubs within 4 km19123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 9 points.9
CalgaryPrague
Score3645
Protected land share 50 km %412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 34 points.34
CalgaryPrague
Score4175
Tourist attractions within 2 km354
Park area within 2 km142 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 37 points.37
CalgaryPrague
Score3976
Notable places within 2 km37310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 21 points.21
CalgaryPrague
Score5475
Price level global8455.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 4 points.4
CalgaryPrague
Score5761
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months87
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
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
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 0 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
10 h 0 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCalgaryPrague
Official languageFrench, EnglishCzech
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m235 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryPrague
City population1,306,7841,397,880
People per km²1,5832,817
Museums within 10 km1388
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6789

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.