city population | 12970 people (country rank: ≈105th) (2018 estimate)
Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
region | Karlovarsky country | Czech Republic
9:38 am CET | Monday, December 8, 2025
48 °F (wind chill: 46 °F) | relative humidity: 93% | wind: 6 mph | cloudy
Cheb, Karlovy Vary | 17 miles west-northwest | 33242 people Karlovy Vary | 20 miles north-northeast | 51807 people Plzeň | 34 miles east-southeast | 164180 people Prague | 77 miles east | 1.249 million people Nuremberg, Middle Franconia | 82 miles west-southwest | 505664 people (straight-line distances between city centers)
Karlovy Vary Airport | 19 miles north-northeast (straight-line distances between city center and airport)
elevation | 2110 ft area | 19.997 mi^2 population density | 649 people per square mile
nuclear power site | Temelin | 90 miles southeast mountain | Watzmann (8901 feet) | 168 miles south mountain | Hochkönig (9649 feet) | 177 miles south mountain | Hoher Dachstein (9829 feet) | 178 miles south-southeast (straight-line distances between city center and feature coordinates)
Baltic Sea (266 miles north-northeast) (straight-line distance between city center and shore)
Alex Čejka (golfer) (1970) Peter Hofmann (singer) (1944) Werner Stark (sociologist, etc.) (1909) Petr Vlček (1973) Jakub Flek (1992) Martin Berkovec (1989) Hans Rudolf Vaget (1938) Ernst Hammerschmidt (1928) Patrik Jaros (1967) Martin Suchánek (1958)