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Barcelona or Zurich?

856 km apart, in Spain 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.

Barcelona is the better pick in July to September and November to February; either in March to June and October.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Barcelona 12° 5d 14° 4d 15° 7d 17° 6d 20° 5d 25° 4d 27° 2d 28° 5d 24° 9d 21° 8d 16° 7d 14° 4d
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 BarcelonaBarcelonaeithereithereithereitherBarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelonaeitherBarcelonaBarcelona

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

856 km as the crow flies, about 1h 58m in the air.Nonstop, about 8 a day · 4 airlines. By train, about 11h 30m · TGV INOUI 9708 · TGV Lyria 9219. By bus, about 12h 49m · BlaBlaCar Bus · TGV INOUI 9864. By road, 1,086 km and about 10h 35m.

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.