VacationSelector

Maastricht or Prague?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

MaastrichtPrague
Beaches & swimming. Maastricht and Prague are level on 0.
MaastrichtPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km67
Coast distance118 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 27 points.27
MaastrichtPrague
Score4875
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3381,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2229
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 19 points.19
MaastrichtPrague
Score5372
Museums within 10 km23138
Museums within 2 km of centre13100
Share of museums within 2 km %5772
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Prague leads by 47 points.47
MaastrichtPrague
Score3077
Drinking venues within 4 km2232,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1821,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8265
Nightclubs within 4 km13123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 8 points.8
MaastrichtPrague
Score3745
Protected land share 50 km %1912
Landscape blanket share 50 km %118
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km33 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 29 points.29
MaastrichtPrague
Score4675
Tourist attractions within 2 km1554
Park area within 2 km33 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 40 points.40
MaastrichtPrague
Score3676
Notable places within 2 km32310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 17 points.17
MaastrichtPrague
Score5875
Price level global79.255.2
Daily budget€181€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 2 points.2
MaastrichtPrague
Score5961
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 40 m
€111-224
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 55 m
€130
PRG · 12 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
1 h 15 m
€73-84
PRG · 12 km
FaroFAO
2 h 55 m
€223
EIN · 70 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 55 m
€63-136
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureMaastrichtPrague
Official languageDutchCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m235 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtPrague
City population120,2271,397,880
People per km²2,0002,817
Museums within 10 km2188
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre3389

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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). 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.