TravelCharika

Prague or Zurich?

511 km apart, in Czechia 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.

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

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Prague 3° 7d 6° 7d 10° 6d 14° 6d 18° 10d 24° 10d 25° 10d 25° 10d 20° 8d 15° 7d 8° 8d 4° 8d
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 neitherZuricheitherPragueeitherPragueZurichZurichPragueeitherneitherneither

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

511 km as the crow flies, about 1h 32m in the air.Nonstop, about 5 a day · SWISS, VistaJet. By train, about 10h 43m · RE25 · FlixBus X06. By bus, about 9h 51m · FlixBus 1307 · ECE 96.

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.