Central Europe
Three capitals on the Danube and the Vltava, a few hours apart by train. 3 stops, 493 km end to end as the crow flies.
The stops, in order
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Prague
Czechia · best Apr, May, Jun
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Vienna
Austria · best Jul, Aug, Oct
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Budapest
Hungary · best Apr, Jul, Aug
Month by month
| Place | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prague | 3° | 6° | 10° | 14° | 18° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 20° | 15° | 8° | 4° |
| Vienna | 4° | 7° | 12° | 16° | 20° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 21° | 16° | 9° | 5° |
| Budapest | 4° | 7° | 12° | 17° | 21° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 23° | 17° | 10° | 5° |
| Sweet spots | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high, from the same ten years of climate readings its page is built from. A dot marks a busy month. The last row counts the sweet spots, and the best months are marked.
Between the stops
| Prague → Vienna | 278 km, about 1h 15m in the air Nonstop, about 4 a day · 4 airlines By train: about 4h 55m · EC 279 · EC 205 By bus: about 4h 49m · FlixBus 060 · U3 |
|---|---|
| Vienna → Budapest | 215 km, about 1h 11m in the air |
Distances are great-circle and the flight time is estimated from them. A road, train or bus line is listed only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, trains and buses from public timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each stop's page are where prices live.
Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about Central Europe as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.