London or Zurich?

771 km apart, in United Kingdom 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.

• London United Kingdom · best May, Jun, Aug
• Zurich Switzerland · best May, Jun, Jul

Month by month

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

• Cost of living — London: expensive, about 89% of the United States; Zurich: very expensive, about 112% of the United States.
• Currency — London: Pound sterling; Zurich: Swiss franc.
• Plugs — London: type G, 230 V; Zurich: type C, 230 V.
• Driving — London: on the left; Zurich: on the right.
• Travel advice — London: —; Zurich: no advice against travel.

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

771 km as the crow flies, about 1h 51m in the air.Nonstop, about 12 a day · British Airways, SWISS. By train, about 8h 08m · TGV INOUI 2421 · EST 9116. By bus, about 22h 36m · FlixBus N99 · FlixBus 700. By road, 1,019 km and about 10h 28m.

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.

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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.