VacationSelector

Prague or Sydney?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Prague
62
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sydney
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

PragueSydney
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
PragueSydney
Score060
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km7160
Coast distance10,000 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 3 points.3
PragueSydney
Score7578
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8662,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2931
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 21 points.21
PragueSydney
Score7251
Museums within 10 km13844
Museums within 2 km of centre10020
Share of museums within 2 km %7245
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Prague leads by 2 points.2
PragueSydney
Score7775
Drinking venues within 4 km2,2482,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,4571,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6569
Nightclubs within 4 km123120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 13 points.13
PragueSydney
Score4558
Protected land share 50 km %1210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km183 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 11 points.11
PragueSydney
Score7564
Tourist attractions within 2 km5437
Park area within 2 km183 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 16 points.16
PragueSydney
Score7660
Notable places within 2 km310123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 25 points.25
PragueSydney
Score7550
Price level global55.290.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 20 points.20
PragueSydney
Score6181
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm55 mm to 121 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Prague
No coastline within reach
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueSydney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
10 h 30 m
€548-574
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
DohaDOH
5 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
19 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasurePragueSydney
Official languageCzechEnglish
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation235 m6 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueSydney
City population1,397,8805,450,496
People per km²2,817449
Museums within 10 km8838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8979
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.