VacationSelector

Ottawa or Prague?

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

Your match

Ottawa
43
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

OttawaPrague
Beaches & swimming. Ottawa and Prague are level on 0.
OttawaPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km97
Coast distance423 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 11 points.11
OttawaPrague
Score6475
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6841,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3429
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 40 points.40
OttawaPrague
Score3272
Museums within 10 km15138
Museums within 2 km of centre8100
Share of museums within 2 km %5372
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Prague leads by 33 points.33
OttawaPrague
Score4477
Drinking venues within 4 km4322,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3031,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7065
Nightclubs within 4 km35123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 4 points.4
OttawaPrague
Score4145
Protected land share 50 km %812
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km122 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 29 points.29
OttawaPrague
Score4675
Tourist attractions within 2 km1154
Park area within 2 km122 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 26 points.26
OttawaPrague
Score5076
Notable places within 2 km71310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 21 points.21
OttawaPrague
Score5475
Price level global8455.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 8 points.8
OttawaPrague
Score5361
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
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
Ottawa
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. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Puerto VallartaPVR
5 h 10 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
12 h 40 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

MeasureOttawaPrague
Official languageFrench, EnglishCzech
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)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
Elevation70 m235 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaPrague
City population1,017,4491,397,880
People per km²3662,817
Museums within 10 km2088
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6289

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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). 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.