VacationSelector

Interlaken or Prague?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

InterlakenPrague
Beaches & swimming. Interlaken and Prague are level on 0.
InterlakenPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance713 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 46 points.46
InterlakenPrague
Score2975
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1181,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1729
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 49 points.49
InterlakenPrague
Score2372
Museums within 10 km5138
Museums within 2 km of centre2100
Share of museums within 2 km %4072
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Prague leads by 73 points.73
InterlakenPrague
Score477
Drinking venues within 4 km422,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre381,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9065
Nightclubs within 4 km3123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 18 points.18
InterlakenPrague
Score2745
Protected land share 50 km %1912
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km5 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 61 points.61
InterlakenPrague
Score1475
Tourist attractions within 2 km1154
Park area within 2 km5 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 54 points.54
InterlakenPrague
Score2276
Notable places within 2 km14310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 40 points.40
InterlakenPrague
Score3575
Price level global110.555.2
Daily budget€248€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 4 points.4
InterlakenPrague
Score5761
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
10 h 0 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

MeasureInterlakenPrague
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshCzech
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m235 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenPrague
City population6,1231,397,880
People per km²1,4242,817
Museums within 10 km388
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2289

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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. 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.