VacationSelector

Dublin or Prague?

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

Your match

Dublin
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

DublinPrague
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinPrague
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km117
Coast distance3 km10,000 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 5 points.5
DublinPrague
Score7075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9201,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3729
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 17 points.17
DublinPrague
Score5572
Museums within 10 km47138
Museums within 2 km of centre37100
Share of museums within 2 km %7972
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Prague leads by 13 points.13
DublinPrague
Score6477
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2392,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9341,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7565
Nightclubs within 4 km40123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 19 points.19
DublinPrague
Score2645
Protected land share 50 km %312
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 21 points.21
DublinPrague
Score5475
Tourist attractions within 2 km4154
Park area within 2 km43 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 14 points.14
DublinPrague
Score6276
Notable places within 2 km141310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 18 points.18
DublinPrague
Score5775
Price level global80.255.2
Daily budget€187€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 7 points.7
DublinPrague
Score5461
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 12 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 5 m
€39-41
DUB · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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

MeasureDublinPrague
Official languageEnglish, IrishCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m235 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinPrague
City population592,7131,397,880
People per km²5,1542,817
Museums within 10 km4088
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7489
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). 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.