VacationSelector

Melbourne 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

Melbourne
60
match

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

Prague
62
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

MelbournePrague
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 55 points.55
MelbournePrague
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km197
Coast distance4 km10,000 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne and Prague are level on 75.
MelbournePrague
Score7575
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8881,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2929
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 23 points.23
MelbournePrague
Score4972
Museums within 10 km42138
Museums within 2 km of centre24100
Share of museums within 2 km %5772
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Prague leads by 3 points.3
MelbournePrague
Score7477
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9212,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,2001,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6265
Nightclubs within 4 km124123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 2 points.2
MelbournePrague
Score4345
Protected land share 50 km %612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %81100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 15 points.15
MelbournePrague
Score6075
Tourist attractions within 2 km2654
Park area within 2 km166 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 19 points.19
MelbournePrague
Score5776
Notable places within 2 km103310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 25 points.25
MelbournePrague
Score5075
Price level global90.255.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 15 points.15
MelbournePrague
Score7661
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbournePrague
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
5 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
9 h 15 m
€407-480
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Abu DhabiAUH
14 h 20 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
5 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 2026-09 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

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 centre66 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 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 km4288
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8689
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). 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.