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Milan 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, 1 point apart

Milan
63
match

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

Prague
62
match

Wins on value for money and places to eat 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.

MilanPrague
Beaches & swimming. Milan and Prague are level on 0.
MilanPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km47
Coast distance120 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 5 points.5
MilanPrague
Score7075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9911,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2029
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 2 points.2
MilanPrague
Score7472
Museums within 10 km87138
Museums within 2 km of centre55100
Share of museums within 2 km %6372
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Prague leads by 2 points.2
MilanPrague
Score7577
Drinking venues within 4 km2,2152,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9611,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4365
Nightclubs within 4 km70123
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 20 points.20
MilanPrague
Score6545
Protected land share 50 km %3012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %118
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km102 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 2 points.2
MilanPrague
Score7775
Tourist attractions within 2 km7654
Park area within 2 km102 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 2 points.2
MilanPrague
Score7476
Notable places within 2 km266310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 7 points.7
MilanPrague
Score6875
Price level global64.955.2
Daily budget€155€107
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 3 points.3
MilanPrague
Score6461
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28.6 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
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. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMilanPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 55 m
€36-88
MXP · 40 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 50 m
€119-204
MXP · 40 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 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

MeasureMilanPrague
Official languageItalianCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation138 m235 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMilanPrague
City population1,354,1961,397,880
People per km²7,4532,817
Museums within 10 km8788
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre7989

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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.