VacationSelector

Prague or Vienna?

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 value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat 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 green space and easy escapes: more protected land around the city, about twice the park space near the centre, most of the nightlife within walking distance, and drier cool-season months.

Choose Vienna if museums and heritage lead the trip: more of them, a wider range of kitchens, and 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Prague's 1.

Scoreboard

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

PragueVienna
Beaches & swimming. Prague and Vienna are level on 0.
PragueVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km722
Coast distance10,000 km10,000 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 2 points.2
PragueVienna
Score7577
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8661,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2937
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 9 points.9
PragueVienna
Score7281
Museums within 10 km138192
Museums within 2 km of centre100110
Share of museums within 2 km %7257
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Prague leads by 3 points.3
PragueVienna
Score7774
Drinking venues within 4 km2,2481,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,4571,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6556
Nightclubs within 4 km123108
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 13 points.13
PragueVienna
Score4532
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km183 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 6 points.6
PragueVienna
Score7569
Tourist attractions within 2 km5446
Park area within 2 km183 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 1 points.1
PragueVienna
Score7675
Notable places within 2 km310287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 16 points.16
PragueVienna
Score7559
Price level global55.276.9
Daily budget€107€160
Year-round weather. Prague and Vienna are level on 61.
PragueVienna
Score6161
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months71
0255075100

Where they differ

Around Prague, 12% of the land is protected against 4% around Vienna, and there is about twice as much park space near the centre, so green space and day trips come easier. National price-level estimates put the daily budget at €107 in Czechia against €160 in Austria, country figures rather than city measurements.

Vienna has somewhat more museums and 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Prague's 1, though Prague's sit more tightly around the centre. Its kitchens span a wider range.

Where they are alike

The two share a weather pattern: January highs of 2-3°C, July the warmest month in both at 25-27°C, and a long mild shoulder either side. Summer is also the wet season in each, so the warmest months are not the driest.

Both are walkable in the same way, with a similar number of notable places within reach of the centre on foot and comparable numbers of nightclubs. Neither is a swimming destination: no month brings water at 21°C or more.

Which traveller are you?

Museum-led travellers should take Vienna. It has more museums and 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Prague's 1, plus the wider range of kitchens for evenings between galleries.

Families with young children lean to Prague, which has more attractions near the centre and about twice the park space, though Vienna counters with 4 theme parks within reach against Prague's 3.

Anyone out late is better served in Prague: more places to drink, and most of its nightclubs sit near the centre, whereas about half of Vienna's do, which means more taxis at the end of the night.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €107 and €160, are national price levels for Czechia and Austria, not measurements of either city. Capitals and heavily visited cities sit some distance from their own country's average, and that distance can be larger than the gap between the two national figures.

Prague's run of dry months is mostly its cold ones: the driest weeks come with highs near 2°C, while the warm summer months are the wettest in both cities. Vienna's 22 nearby beaches are inland water, and no month here brings swimming temperatures.

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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Prague stays drier through the cooler half of the year, at 22-36mm a month from October to April, well under Vienna in the same stretch, so winter and early spring sightseeing is cold but seldom wet. September suits it too, at 20°C with 44mm.

Vienna is the stronger summer pick, running warmer from June to August at 25-27°C, though rain there runs 70-78mm in those months and May is wetter still. Its peak weeks are warm rather than dry.

Getting there

Flying fromPragueVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
3 h 25 m
€283-311
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€84-160
VIE · 18 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 0 m
€179-197
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€135-192
VIE · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 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

MeasurePragueVienna
Official languageCzechGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueVienna
City population1,397,8802,028,289
People per km²2,8174,890
Museums within 10 km88152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre89113

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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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.