VacationSelector

Copenhagen 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, 1 point apart

Copenhagen
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Prague
62
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

CopenhagenPrague
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenPrague
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km177
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenPrague
Score7375
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3729
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 3 points.3
CopenhagenPrague
Score7572
Museums within 10 km83138
Museums within 2 km of centre51100
Share of museums within 2 km %6172
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Prague leads by 10 points.10
CopenhagenPrague
Score6777
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3842,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8061,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5865
Nightclubs within 4 km64123
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 5 points.5
CopenhagenPrague
Score5045
Protected land share 50 km %512
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 4 points.4
CopenhagenPrague
Score7175
Tourist attractions within 2 km5454
Park area within 2 km138 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenPrague
Score7476
Notable places within 2 km273310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 23 points.23
CopenhagenPrague
Score5275
Price level global87.855.2
Daily budget€214€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 6 points.6
CopenhagenPrague
Score5561
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months37
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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€91-151
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€141-201
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
5 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
10 h 45 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

MeasureCopenhagenPrague
Official languageDanishCzech
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m235 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenPrague
City population667,0991,397,880
People per km²7,3392,817
Museums within 10 km7288
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8289
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.