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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station
Charles Bridge and the Old Town Bridge Tower, Prague
PragueCharles Bridge and the Old Town Bridge Tower

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Prague by Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Melbourne or Prague?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Melbourne for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’s own page.

Choose Prague for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Prague’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Melbourne 50, Prague 10: Melbourne leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Melbourne 75, Prague 50: Melbourne leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Melbourne 57, Prague 83: Prague leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Melbourne 75, Prague 65: Melbourne leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Melbourne 70, Prague 58: Melbourne leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Melbourne 62, Prague 77: Prague leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Melbourne 73, Prague 50: Melbourne leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Melbourne 76, Prague 83: Prague leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Melbourne 70, Prague 50: Melbourne leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Melbourne 31, Prague 62: Prague leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Melbourne 72, Prague 76: Prague leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Melbourne 54, Prague 40: Melbourne leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Melbourne and Prague.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

Prague
59match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Prague in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MelbournePrague

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMelbournePrague
Official languageEnglishCzech
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m235 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre178 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbournePrague
City population5,350,7051,397,880
People per km²5352,817
Museums within 10 km4388
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.