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Amsterdam or Zurich?

603 km apart, in Netherlands and Switzerland. 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.

Amsterdam is the better pick in September; Zurich in February to April and October; either in May to August. November to January are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Amsterdam 6° 11d 8° 10d 10° 10d 13° 8d 17° 9d 20° 10d 21° 10d 22° 10d 19° 11d 15° 12d 10° 12d 8° 13d
Zurich 4° 11d 8° 9d 11° 11d 14° 9d 18° 13d 23° 12d 25° 12d 25° 10d 20° 9d 16° 10d 9° 11d 5° 13d
Pick neitherZurichZurichZuricheithereithereithereitherAmsterdamZurichneitherneither

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

603 km as the crow flies, about 1h 39m in the air.Nonstop, about 11 a day · 4 airlines. By train, about 8h 17m · ICE 7 · ICE 125. By bus, about 11h 51m · FlixBus 007 · ICE 125. By road, 834 km and about 7h 31m.

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.