VacationSelector

Prague or Rome?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
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.

PragueRome
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
PragueRome
Score033
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km73
Coast distance10,000 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 15 points.15
PragueRome
Score7560
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8662,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2910
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 12 points.12
PragueRome
Score7284
Museums within 10 km138161
Museums within 2 km of centre10079
Share of museums within 2 km %7249
Unesco sites within 50 km17
Nightlife. Prague leads by 3 points.3
PragueRome
Score7774
Drinking venues within 4 km2,2482,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6545
Nightclubs within 4 km12385
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 25 points.25
PragueRome
Score4570
Protected land share 50 km %1219
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km183 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 11 points.11
PragueRome
Score7586
Tourist attractions within 2 km54126
Park area within 2 km183 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 23 points.23
PragueRome
Score7699
Notable places within 2 km3101,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 7 points.7
PragueRome
Score7568
Price level global55.264.9
Daily budget€107€155
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 10 points.10
PragueRome
Score6171
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm21 mm to 114 mm
Dry months73
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueRome
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€60-112
FCO · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
3 h 20 m
€115-179
FCO · 23 km
AthensATH
2 h 30 m
€132-140
PRG · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€96-116
FCO · 23 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
11 h 15 m
€630-760
FCO · 23 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

MeasurePragueRome
Official languageCzechItalian
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation235 m21 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueRome
City population1,397,8802,748,109
People per km²2,8172,135
Museums within 10 km88177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Distinct cuisines in the centre8965
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.