VacationSelector

London or Prague?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

London
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Prague
62
match

Wins on value for money 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.

LondonPrague
Beaches & swimming. London and Prague are level on 0.
LondonPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km477
Coast distance43 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 13 points.13
LondonPrague
Score8875
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3171,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4029
Museums & heritage. London and Prague are level on 72.
LondonPrague
Score7272
Museums within 10 km148138
Museums within 2 km of centre49100
Share of museums within 2 km %3372
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. London leads by 18 points.18
LondonPrague
Score9577
Drinking venues within 4 km5,3272,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,4431,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4665
Nightclubs within 4 km312123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 5 points.5
LondonPrague
Score4045
Protected land share 50 km %1612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %148
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. London and Prague are level on 75.
LondonPrague
Score7575
Tourist attractions within 2 km8554
Park area within 2 km84 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. London leads by 13 points.13
LondonPrague
Score8976
Notable places within 2 km649310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 21 points.21
LondonPrague
Score5475
Price level global84.955.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. London leads by 2 points.2
LondonPrague
Score6361
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
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
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLondonPrague
AntalyaAYT
4 h 5 m
€144-189
LGW · 40 km
3 h 0 m
€179-197
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
€79-116
LGW · 40 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
AthensATH
3 h 30 m
€258-349
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
2 h 30 m
€132-140
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
LTN · 44 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 45 m
no fares
LGW · 40 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

MeasureLondonPrague
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
Elevation4 m235 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonPrague
City population8,799,7281,397,880
People per km²5,5982,817
Museums within 10 km21588
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre11689

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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). 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.