VacationSelector

Prague or Rotterdam?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

PragueRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
PragueRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km722
Coast distance10,000 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 3 points.3
PragueRotterdam
Score7572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,866862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2946
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 12 points.12
PragueRotterdam
Score7260
Museums within 10 km13841
Museums within 2 km of centre10020
Share of museums within 2 km %7249
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Prague leads by 28 points.28
PragueRotterdam
Score7749
Drinking venues within 4 km2,248542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6570
Nightclubs within 4 km12340
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 3 points.3
PragueRotterdam
Score4542
Protected land share 50 km %1210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km183 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 13 points.13
PragueRotterdam
Score7562
Tourist attractions within 2 km5427
Park area within 2 km183 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km38
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 25 points.25
PragueRotterdam
Score7651
Notable places within 2 km31074
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 17 points.17
PragueRotterdam
Score7558
Price level global55.279.2
Daily budget€107€181
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 5 points.5
PragueRotterdam
Score6156
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 55 m
€91-151
PRG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasurePragueRotterdam
Official languageCzechDutch
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation235 m10 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueRotterdam
City population1,397,880664,311
People per km²2,8172,080
Museums within 10 km8840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre8977
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.