VacationSelector

Prague or Vancouver?

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.

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

PragueVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
PragueVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km7109
Coast distance10,000 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 1 points.1
PragueVancouver
Score7574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8661,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2935
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 38 points.38
PragueVancouver
Score7234
Museums within 10 km13827
Museums within 2 km of centre10015
Share of museums within 2 km %7256
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Prague leads by 20 points.20
PragueVancouver
Score7757
Drinking venues within 4 km2,248848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6571
Nightclubs within 4 km12344
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 32 points.32
PragueVancouver
Score4577
Protected land share 50 km %1219
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km183 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 22 points.22
PragueVancouver
Score7553
Tourist attractions within 2 km5415
Park area within 2 km183 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 28 points.28
PragueVancouver
Score7648
Notable places within 2 km31063
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 21 points.21
PragueVancouver
Score7554
Price level global55.284
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 8 points.8
PragueVancouver
Score6153
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Prague
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vancouver
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
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
10 h 20 m
€629-762
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
Puerto VallartaPVR
12 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 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

MeasurePragueVancouver
Official languageCzechFrench, English
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation235 m2 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueVancouver
City population1,397,880662,248
People per km²2,8175,759
Museums within 10 km8826
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8985
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.