VacationSelector

Prague or Zurich?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

PragueZurich
Beaches & swimming. Prague and Zurich are level on 0.
PragueZurich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km723
Coast distance10,000 km632 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 8 points.8
PragueZurich
Score7567
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,866974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2930
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 16 points.16
PragueZurich
Score7256
Museums within 10 km13876
Museums within 2 km of centre10037
Share of museums within 2 km %7249
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Prague leads by 23 points.23
PragueZurich
Score7754
Drinking venues within 4 km2,248676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6582
Nightclubs within 4 km12374
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 8 points.8
PragueZurich
Score4537
Protected land share 50 km %1216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %89
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km183 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 39 points.39
PragueZurich
Score7536
Tourist attractions within 2 km548
Park area within 2 km183 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 17 points.17
PragueZurich
Score7659
Notable places within 2 km310119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 40 points.40
PragueZurich
Score7535
Price level global55.2110.5
Daily budget€107€248
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 8 points.8
PragueZurich
Score6153
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromPragueZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 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

MeasurePragueZurich
Official languageCzechFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation235 m408 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueZurich
City population1,397,880452,421
People per km²2,8175,147
Museums within 10 km8863
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8978

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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.