TravelCharika

Budapest or Prague?

472 km apart, in Hungary and Czechia. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Budapest is the better pick in February, July to August and October to November; Prague in May; either in March to April, June and September. December to January are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Budapest 4° 6d 7° 5d 12° 6d 17° 6d 21° 8d 27° 7d 28° 6d 29° 5d 23° 7d 17° 5d 10° 7d 5° 7d
Prague 3° 7d 6° 7d 10° 6d 14° 6d 18° 10d 24° 10d 25° 10d 25° 10d 20° 8d 15° 7d 8° 8d 4° 8d
Pick neitherBudapesteithereitherPragueeitherBudapestBudapesteitherBudapestBudapestneither

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month.

Before you go

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

Between them

472 km as the crow flies, about 1h 30m in the air.Nonstop, about 1 a day · Ryanair, TIE. By bus, about 7h 49m · FlixBus 060 · RJX 65.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.