VacationSelector

Prague or Stuttgart?

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 sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Prague if you want a trip you can walk: far more notable places within reach of the centre, more to keep children busy, with 3 theme parks within reach, and much more choice for drinking and eating out late.

Choose Stuttgart if the surroundings matter more than the streets: 51% of the land around it is protected against 12% around Prague, and it stays milder in winter.

Scoreboard

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

PragueStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Prague and Stuttgart are level on 0.
PragueStuttgart
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km73
Coast distance10,000 km476 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Prague leads by 16 points.16
PragueStuttgart
Score7559
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,866575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2929
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 16 points.16
PragueStuttgart
Score7256
Museums within 10 km13865
Museums within 2 km of centre10021
Share of museums within 2 km %7232
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Prague leads by 28 points.28
PragueStuttgart
Score7749
Drinking venues within 4 km2,248524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6571
Nightclubs within 4 km12353
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 35 points.35
PragueStuttgart
Score4580
Protected land share 50 km %1251
Landscape blanket share 50 km %831
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km183 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 30 points.30
PragueStuttgart
Score7545
Tourist attractions within 2 km5411
Park area within 2 km183 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 32 points.32
PragueStuttgart
Score7644
Notable places within 2 km31050
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 15 points.15
PragueStuttgart
Score7560
Price level global55.275.9
Daily budget€107€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 2 points.2
PragueStuttgart
Score6163
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months73
0255075100

Where they differ

Prague packs many times as many notable places into walking distance of the centre, and about twice as many museums. For families it has many times as many attractions near the centre, about twice as much park space and 3 theme parks within reach against Stuttgart's 2. Its drinking and clubbing options run far wider too.

Stuttgart's strength is outside the city: 51% of the land around it is protected against 12% around Prague, and 3 UNESCO-listed places sit within day-trip reach against Prague's 1.

Where they are alike

Neither is a place to swim. Prague counts 7 beaches nearby and Stuttgart 3, but neither has a month with sea reaching 21°C or more, so a swimming day is not what either trip is built around.

Their weather years run close: Prague 2-25°C across the months, Stuttgart 6-26°C, both with a warm summer and a cold winter. Eating out differs in quantity rather than kind, since both cover a similar range of kitchens.

Which traveller are you?

Travelling with children: Prague. Many more attractions sit near the centre, there is about twice as much park space, and 3 theme parks lie within reach against Stuttgart's 2, so days need less planning.

Out late, eating and drinking your way through a weekend: Prague again. It has many times as many places to drink, about twice as many nightclubs, and far more restaurants near the centre.

Walkers and day-trippers with a car: Stuttgart. 51% of the surrounding land is protected against 12% around Prague, and 3 UNESCO-listed places lie within day-trip range.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget of €107 for Czechia and €163 for Germany are national price levels, not measurements of Prague or Stuttgart. A capital and a heavily visited city can sit further from their own national average than these two figures sit from each other, so treat them as background, not as a comparison of what either city will cost you.

Prague's warmest months are also its wettest, at 65-80mm from June to August, and its run of drier months falls mostly in the cold half of the year. A dry month is not automatically a month you want.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Prague is at its best from June to August, with highs of 23-25°C, though those are also its wettest months at 65-80mm. Spring is the drier choice: March and April bring 27-31mm, and Prague has 7 months at 40mm of rain or less against Stuttgart's 3.

Stuttgart peaks in July and August at 26°C, and its August is drier, 63mm against Prague's 79mm. It is also the easier winter, with January highs near 6°C against 2°C.

Getting there

Flying fromPragueStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 0 m
€179-197
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
3 h 15 m
€194-322
1 stop
STR · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€111-165
STR · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 15 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
10 h 45 m
€490-632
1 stop
FRA · 146 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 146 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

MeasurePragueStuttgart
Official languageCzechGerman
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
Elevation235 m245 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueStuttgart
City population1,397,880633,484
People per km²2,8173,054
Museums within 10 km8842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8959

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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.