VacationSelector

Prague or Shanghai?

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 museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Shanghai
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

PragueShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
PragueShanghai
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance10,000 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 27 points.27
PragueShanghai
Score7245
Museums within 10 km138108
Museums within 2 km of centre10028
Share of museums within 2 km %7226
Unesco sites within 50 km10
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 3 points.3
PragueShanghai
Score4542
Protected land share 50 km %129
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %10082
Park area within 2 km183 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 6 points.6
PragueShanghai
Score7581
Tourist attractions within 2 km5486
Park area within 2 km183 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km310
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 25 points.25
PragueShanghai
Score7651
Notable places within 2 km31073
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 4 points.4
PragueShanghai
Score7579
Price level global55.249
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Shanghai leads by 4 points.4
PragueShanghai
Score6165
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm43 mm to 216 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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Prague
No coastline within reach
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
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). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueShanghai
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€150-154
PVG · 33 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€173-183
PVG · 33 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
AthensATH
2 h 30 m
€132-140
PRG · 12 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 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

MeasurePragueShanghai
Official languageCzechPutonghua
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation235 m4 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueShanghai
City population1,397,88024,870,895
People per km²2,8173,922
Museums within 10 km8844
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8964
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.