VacationSelector

Prague or Rio de Janeiro?

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

Your match

Prague
62
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

PragueRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 100 points.100
PragueRio de Janeiro
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km761
Coast distance10,000 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 21 points.21
PragueRio de Janeiro
Score7554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,866804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2916
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 3 points.3
PragueRio de Janeiro
Score7269
Museums within 10 km138110
Museums within 2 km of centre10051
Share of museums within 2 km %7246
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Prague leads by 20 points.20
PragueRio de Janeiro
Score7757
Drinking venues within 4 km2,248818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6562
Nightclubs within 4 km12350
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 17 points.17
PragueRio de Janeiro
Score4562
Protected land share 50 km %1221
Landscape blanket share 50 km %817
Land share of disc %10057
Park area within 2 km183 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 16 points.16
PragueRio de Janeiro
Score7559
Tourist attractions within 2 km5430
Park area within 2 km183 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 20 points.20
PragueRio de Janeiro
Score7656
Notable places within 2 km31098
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 6 points.6
PragueRio de Janeiro
Score7581
Price level global55.246.1
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 24 points.24
PragueRio de Janeiro
Score6185
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm42 mm to 232 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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Rio de Janeiro
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueRio de Janeiro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 15 m
€176-241
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 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

MeasurePragueRio de Janeiro
Official languageCzechPortuguese
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation235 m31 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueRio de Janeiro
City population1,397,8806,211,223
People per km²2,8174,930
Museums within 10 km8870
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8927
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.