VacationSelector

Chicago or Prague?

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

Your match

Chicago
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money 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.

ChicagoPrague
Beaches & swimming. Chicago leads by 53 points.53
ChicagoPrague
Score530
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance10,000 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 6 points.6
ChicagoPrague
Score8175
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1471,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3729
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 26 points.26
ChicagoPrague
Score4672
Museums within 10 km45138
Museums within 2 km of centre20100
Share of museums within 2 km %4472
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Prague leads by 15 points.15
ChicagoPrague
Score6277
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1232,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7281,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6565
Nightclubs within 4 km51123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 7 points.7
ChicagoPrague
Score3845
Protected land share 50 km %612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 20 points.20
ChicagoPrague
Score5575
Tourist attractions within 2 km1854
Park area within 2 km118 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 6 points.6
ChicagoPrague
Score7076
Notable places within 2 km217310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 32 points.32
ChicagoPrague
Score4375
Price level global10055.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 4 points.4
ChicagoPrague
Score5761
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
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
Chicago
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
12 h 20 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
€189-423
ORD · 25 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 25 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
9 h 45 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
AthensATH
11 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€132-140
PRG · 12 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
10 h 20 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

MeasureChicagoPrague
Official languageCzech
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m235 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoPrague
City population2,746,3881,397,880
People per km²4,5292,817
Museums within 10 km4388
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8789
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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). 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.