VacationSelector

Prague or Sofia?

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 good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Sofia
56
match

Wins on value for money 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.

PragueSofia
Beaches & swimming. Prague and Sofia are level on 0.
PragueSofia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance10,000 km214 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 11 points.11
PragueSofia
Score7564
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,866845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2928
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 15 points.15
PragueSofia
Score7257
Museums within 10 km13851
Museums within 2 km of centre10040
Share of museums within 2 km %7278
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Prague leads by 16 points.16
PragueSofia
Score7761
Drinking venues within 4 km2,248958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6563
Nightclubs within 4 km123102
Nature & day trips. Sofia leads by 6 points.6
PragueSofia
Score4551
Protected land share 50 km %1212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %84
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km183 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 20 points.20
PragueSofia
Score7555
Tourist attractions within 2 km5420
Park area within 2 km183 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 19 points.19
PragueSofia
Score7657
Notable places within 2 km310104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 24 points.24
PragueSofia
Score7599
Price level global55.221.4
Daily budget€107€77
Year-round weather. Sofia leads by 3 points.3
PragueSofia
Score6164
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm36 mm to 78 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
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sofia
9
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
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
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). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueSofia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 0 m
€123-212
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 8 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 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 2026-09 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

MeasurePragueSofia
Official languageCzechBulgarian
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 m560 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueSofia
City population1,397,8801,213,134
People per km²2,8172,466
Museums within 10 km8842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8951

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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.