VacationSelector

Porto 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, level with your weighting

Porto
62
match

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

Prague
62
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

PortoPrague
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
PortoPrague
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km527
Coast distance4 km10,000 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 7 points.7
PortoPrague
Score6875
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1721,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2729
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 1 points.1
PortoPrague
Score7172
Museums within 10 km101138
Museums within 2 km of centre57100
Share of museums within 2 km %5672
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Prague leads by 19 points.19
PortoPrague
Score5877
Drinking venues within 4 km9002,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5701,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6365
Nightclubs within 4 km38123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 12 points.12
PortoPrague
Score3345
Protected land share 50 km %712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km30 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 10 points.10
PortoPrague
Score6575
Tourist attractions within 2 km12254
Park area within 2 km30 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 22 points.22
PortoPrague
Score5476
Notable places within 2 km85310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 1 points.1
PortoPrague
Score7475
Price level global55.955.2
Daily budget€109€107
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 10 points.10
PortoPrague
Score7161
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
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
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoPrague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
3 h 15 m
€176-241
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
FunchalFNC
2 h 5 m
€67-130
OPO · 12 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€153-209
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasurePortoPrague
Official languagePortugueseCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation104 m235 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoPrague
City population231,8001,397,880
People per km²5,5992,817
Museums within 10 km4288
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre7089
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). 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.