VacationSelector

Prague or Rovaniemi?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PragueRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Prague and Rovaniemi are level on 0.
PragueRovaniemi
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km713
Coast distance10,000 km99 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 54 points.54
PragueRovaniemi
Score7521
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,86680
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2914
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 52 points.52
PragueRovaniemi
Score7220
Museums within 10 km1388
Museums within 2 km of centre1007
Share of museums within 2 km %7288
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Prague leads by 73 points.73
PragueRovaniemi
Score774
Drinking venues within 4 km2,24852
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,45742
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6581
Nightclubs within 4 km1233
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 29 points.29
PragueRovaniemi
Score4516
Protected land share 50 km %122
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km183 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 54 points.54
PragueRovaniemi
Score7521
Tourist attractions within 2 km542
Park area within 2 km183 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 51 points.51
PragueRovaniemi
Score7625
Notable places within 2 km31017
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 19 points.19
PragueRovaniemi
Score7556
Price level global55.281.6
Daily budget€107€184
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 18 points.18
PragueRovaniemi
Score6143
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months75
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
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Rovaniemi
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). Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueRovaniemi
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 15 m
€205-234
PRG · 12 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 12 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KTT · 139 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 12 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 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

MeasurePragueRovaniemi
Official languageCzechFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation235 m88 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueRovaniemi
City population1,397,88065,329
People per km²2,8179
Museums within 10 km886
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8916

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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. 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.