VacationSelector

Madrid or Prague?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Prague
62
match

Wins on value for money 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.

MadridPrague
Beaches & swimming. Madrid and Prague are level on 0.
MadridPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km47
Coast distance305 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 8 points.8
MadridPrague
Score8375
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,5081,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2829
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 3 points.3
MadridPrague
Score7572
Museums within 10 km97138
Museums within 2 km of centre59100
Share of museums within 2 km %6172
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 4 points.4
MadridPrague
Score8177
Drinking venues within 4 km2,4142,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,4981,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6265
Nightclubs within 4 km341123
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 18 points.18
MadridPrague
Score6345
Protected land share 50 km %1912
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km187 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 2 points.2
MadridPrague
Score7775
Tourist attractions within 2 km6154
Park area within 2 km187 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 1 points.1
MadridPrague
Score7576
Notable places within 2 km288310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 4 points.4
MadridPrague
Score7175
Price level global60.855.2
Daily budget€122€107
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 11 points.11
MadridPrague
Score7261
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months77
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 14 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
€109-153
MAD · 14 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureMadridPrague
Official languageSpanishCzech
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 number112112
Elevation663 m235 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridPrague
City population3,506,7301,397,880
People per km²5,8012,817
Museums within 10 km8888
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre10689

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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.