VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Prague?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money 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.

EdinburghPrague
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
EdinburghPrague
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km207
Coast distance3 km10,000 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 5 points.5
EdinburghPrague
Score7075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0231,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3529
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 15 points.15
EdinburghPrague
Score5772
Museums within 10 km30138
Museums within 2 km of centre22100
Share of museums within 2 km %7372
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Prague leads by 13 points.13
EdinburghPrague
Score6477
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1932,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8841,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7465
Nightclubs within 4 km65123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 10 points.10
EdinburghPrague
Score3545
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %18
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 3 points.3
EdinburghPrague
Score7275
Tourist attractions within 2 km8754
Park area within 2 km166 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 16 points.16
EdinburghPrague
Score6076
Notable places within 2 km126310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 21 points.21
EdinburghPrague
Score5475
Price level global84.955.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 10 points.10
EdinburghPrague
Score5161
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 35 m
€195-238
2 stops
EDI · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€179-197
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 55 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

MeasureEdinburghPrague
Official languageEnglishCzech
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m235 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghPrague
City population488,0501,397,880
People per km²1,8842,817
Museums within 10 km3288
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre7889
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). 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.