VacationSelector

Nice or Prague?

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

Your match

Nice
56
match

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

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

NicePrague
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 73 points.73
NicePrague
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km707
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 6 points.6
NicePrague
Score6975
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2311,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2829
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 26 points.26
NicePrague
Score4672
Museums within 10 km27138
Museums within 2 km of centre14100
Share of museums within 2 km %5272
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Prague leads by 33 points.33
NicePrague
Score4477
Drinking venues within 4 km4282,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3881,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9165
Nightclubs within 4 km26123
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 12 points.12
NicePrague
Score5745
Protected land share 50 km %2412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %208
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 45 points.45
NicePrague
Score3075
Tourist attractions within 2 km454
Park area within 2 km56 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 29 points.29
NicePrague
Score4776
Notable places within 2 km60310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 13 points.13
NicePrague
Score6275
Price level global73.755.2
Daily budget€160€107
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 13 points.13
NicePrague
Score7461
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months37
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNicePrague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
8 h 20 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

MeasureNicePrague
Official languageFrenchCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m235 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNicePrague
City population357,7371,397,880
People per km²4,9752,817
Museums within 10 km1688
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6589
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.