VacationSelector

Lisbon or Prague?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Prague
62
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

LisbonPrague
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
LisbonPrague
Score570
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km247
Coast distance2 km10,000 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 5 points.5
LisbonPrague
Score8075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4961,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3129
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 2 points.2
LisbonPrague
Score7072
Museums within 10 km124138
Museums within 2 km of centre54100
Share of museums within 2 km %4472
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Prague leads by 12 points.12
LisbonPrague
Score6577
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2252,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9561,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7865
Nightclubs within 4 km65123
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 11 points.11
LisbonPrague
Score5645
Protected land share 50 km %1112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km77 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 6 points.6
LisbonPrague
Score6975
Tourist attractions within 2 km8254
Park area within 2 km77 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 10 points.10
LisbonPrague
Score6676
Notable places within 2 km169310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 1 points.1
LisbonPrague
Score7475
Price level global55.955.2
Daily budget€109€107
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 17 points.17
LisbonPrague
Score7861
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months47
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
FunchalFNC
1 h 50 m
€132-180
LIS · 7 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
€120-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 50 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 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

MeasureLisbonPrague
Official languagePortugueseCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m235 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonPrague
City population545,7961,397,880
People per km²5,4532,817
Museums within 10 km7888
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre10689
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.