VacationSelector

Prague or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

PragueReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
PragueReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km733
Coast distance10,000 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 26 points.26
PragueReykjavik
Score7549
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,866261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2929
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 22 points.22
PragueReykjavik
Score7250
Museums within 10 km13834
Museums within 2 km of centre10023
Share of museums within 2 km %7268
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Prague leads by 50 points.50
PragueReykjavik
Score7727
Drinking venues within 4 km2,248192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6586
Nightclubs within 4 km12310
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 14 points.14
PragueReykjavik
Score4559
Protected land share 50 km %1216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km183 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 33 points.33
PragueReykjavik
Score7542
Tourist attractions within 2 km5421
Park area within 2 km183 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 28 points.28
PragueReykjavik
Score7648
Notable places within 2 km31061
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 34 points.34
PragueReykjavik
Score7541
Price level global55.2102.8
Daily budget€107€243
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 24 points.24
PragueReykjavik
Score6137
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months70
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Prague
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 12 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 55 m
€91-151
PRG · 12 km
3 h 10 m
€174-231
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 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

MeasurePragueReykjavik
Official languageCzechIcelandic
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation235 m8 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueReykjavik
City population1,397,880138,772
People per km²2,817569
Museums within 10 km8823
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8942
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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.