🇨🇿Cost of Travel in Czechia (2026): Daily Budgets for 3 Cities
Gothic Prague, a fairy-tale river town in the south and a young, cheap second city in Moravia — some of Europe's best-preserved old towns, and still some of its best-value beer.
Daily budgets in Czechia
The cheapest city in Czechia is Brno, at $75–125 a day mid-range per person; the priciest is Prague, at $110–180 — about 45% more for the same style of trip.
| City | Budget / day | Mid-range / day | Comfort / day | Cheap meal | Mid-range hotel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brno | $45–75 | $75–125 | $140–230 | $6–9 | $70–120 |
| Český Krumlov | $55–90 | $90–150 | $160–270 | $8–12 | $85–150 |
| Prague | $65–110 | $110–180 | $200–320 | $7–10 | $120–215 |
Per person in US dollars, flights not included. Mid-range is each guide's researched figure and includes a mid-range room; budget and comfort scale it by 0.6 and 1.8, so treat those as rough. How we work these out.
Plan a trip across Czechia
Set the nights you'd spend in each city. Per person, before flights; each night counts one day of that city's daily budget.
Cities
🇨🇿Brno
CzechiaCzechia's second city and its student capital: a modernist villa on the UNESCO list, a bone-lined ossuary, cellars under the vegetable market and some of the best cocktail bars in Central Europe — at lower prices than Prague, and with hardly any tour groups.
🇨🇿Český Krumlov
CzechiaA red-roofed medieval town inside a double loop of the Vltava, under a castle almost as big as the town itself. Tiny, very beautiful, and full of day-trippers from ten to four — so sleep here and have it to yourself.
🇨🇿Prague
CzechiaA thousand years of architecture that nobody got around to bombing, a castle district on one bank and a Gothic Old Town on the other, and the best cheap beer in Europe. The center is crowded by ten; the city is wonderful before and after.
Head to head
Two cities side by side — costs, best months and what you'd do in each.