VacationSelector

Prague or Valencia?

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 good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Valencia
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.

PragueValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
PragueValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km712
Coast distance10,000 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 3 points.3
PragueValencia
Score7578
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8661,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2933
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 17 points.17
PragueValencia
Score7255
Museums within 10 km13859
Museums within 2 km of centre10026
Share of museums within 2 km %7244
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Prague leads by 7 points.7
PragueValencia
Score7770
Drinking venues within 4 km2,2481,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6563
Nightclubs within 4 km123108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 8 points.8
PragueValencia
Score4553
Protected land share 50 km %1210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km183 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 33 points.33
PragueValencia
Score7542
Tourist attractions within 2 km5412
Park area within 2 km183 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 24 points.24
PragueValencia
Score7652
Notable places within 2 km31078
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 4 points.4
PragueValencia
Score7571
Price level global55.260.8
Daily budget€107€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 23 points.23
PragueValencia
Score6184
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months78
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Prague
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 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

MeasurePragueValencia
Official languageCzechSpanish
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 m15 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueValencia
City population1,397,880840,792
People per km²2,8176,242
Museums within 10 km8846
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8992
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.