VacationSelector

New York or Prague?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

New YorkPrague
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
New YorkPrague
Score640
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km177
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 20 points.20
New YorkPrague
Score9575
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0321,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3829
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 12 points.12
New YorkPrague
Score6072
Museums within 10 km119138
Museums within 2 km of centre31100
Share of museums within 2 km %2672
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. New York leads by 12 points.12
New YorkPrague
Score8977
Drinking venues within 4 km4,1592,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,0151,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4865
Nightclubs within 4 km192123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 6 points.6
New YorkPrague
Score3945
Protected land share 50 km %412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 3 points.3
New YorkPrague
Score7275
Tourist attractions within 2 km3754
Park area within 2 km134 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km73
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 2 points.2
New YorkPrague
Score7476
Notable places within 2 km268310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 32 points.32
New YorkPrague
Score4375
Price level global10055.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 3 points.3
New YorkPrague
Score5861
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
New York
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
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
MadridMAD
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 12 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureNew YorkPrague
Official languageCzech
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m235 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkPrague
City population8,804,1901,397,880
People per km²7,2562,817
Museums within 10 km15788
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre13289
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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.