VacationSelector

Dubai or Prague?

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

Your match

Dubai
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

DubaiPrague
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 100 points.100
DubaiPrague
Score1000
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km527
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 9 points.9
DubaiPrague
Score6675
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0861,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2629
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 34 points.34
DubaiPrague
Score3872
Museums within 10 km26138
Museums within 2 km of centre18100
Share of museums within 2 km %6972
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Prague leads by 24 points.24
DubaiPrague
Score5377
Drinking venues within 4 km6012,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3061,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5165
Nightclubs within 4 km84123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 27 points.27
DubaiPrague
Score1845
Protected land share 50 km %412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 26 points.26
DubaiPrague
Score4975
Tourist attractions within 2 km3754
Park area within 2 km13 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 39 points.39
DubaiPrague
Score3776
Notable places within 2 km33310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 6 points.6
DubaiPrague
Score6975
Price level global63.455.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Dubai leads by 5 points.5
DubaiPrague
Score6661
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months127
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
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. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€318-438
DXB · 7 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
4 h 40 m
€263-354
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€130
PRG · 12 km
RiyadhRUH
1 h 40 m
€106-123
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
3 h 0 m
€179-197
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
SeoulICN, GMP
8 h 35 m
no fares
DXB · 7 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

MeasureDubaiPrague
Official languageArabicCzech
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m235 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiPrague
City population3,944,7511,397,880
People per km²2,817
Museums within 10 km1488
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5289
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.