VacationSelector

Ghent or Prague?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GhentPrague
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
GhentPrague
Score260
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km87
Coast distance32 km10,000 km
Water distance32 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 5 points.5
GhentPrague
Score7075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7641,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4929
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 14 points.14
GhentPrague
Score5872
Museums within 10 km24138
Museums within 2 km of centre20100
Share of museums within 2 km %8372
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Prague leads by 28 points.28
GhentPrague
Score4977
Drinking venues within 4 km5702,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4461,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7865
Nightclubs within 4 km26123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 11 points.11
GhentPrague
Score3445
Protected land share 50 km %712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %48
Land share of disc %87100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 25 points.25
GhentPrague
Score5075
Tourist attractions within 2 km1954
Park area within 2 km84 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 30 points.30
GhentPrague
Score4676
Notable places within 2 km55310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 15 points.15
GhentPrague
Score6075
Price level global76.255.2
Daily budget€180€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 5 points.5
GhentPrague
Score5661
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months17
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
3 h 0 m
€179-197
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
€118-155
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 30 m
€132-140
PRG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureGhentPrague
Official languageFrench, German, DutchCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation12 m235 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentPrague
City population272,6571,397,880
People per km²1,7282,817
Museums within 10 km3088
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8389
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.