There are 11 ways to get from Prague to Locarno by plane, train, bus, or car
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Fly Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
best- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane PRG - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Mendrisiotrain
- Take the train from Mendrisio to Locarnotrain
6h 36mCHF 38–228Bus via Chur
- Take the bus from Prague to Chur station train stationbus FlixBus N1308
- Take the bus from Chur, Postautostation to Bellinzona, Stazionebus 171
13h 3mCHF 55–90Train via Munich
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Muenchen Hbftrain Ec
- Take the train from München Hbf to Lindau, Reutin Bahnhoftrain 88
- Take the train from Bregenz to Zürich HBtrain Ec
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Bellinzonatrain Ec / ...
13h 38mCHF 205–423Drive 760.4 km
- Drive from Prague to Locarnocar 760.4 km
7h 53mCHF 121–175Fly Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane PRG - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Bellinzonatrain
6h 37mCHF 121–271Fly Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport, train
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)plane PRG - LIN
- Take the train from Monza to Locarnotrain
8h 37mCHF 90–215Fly Václav Havel Airport Prague to Il Caravaggio International Airport, train
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY)plane PRG - BGY
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Locarnotrain
7h 24mCHF 60–228Fly Václav Havel Airport Prague to Geneva International Airport, train
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane PRG - GVA
- Take the train from Genève-Aéroport to Locarnotrain
10h 27mCHF 182–553Train to Dresden Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden-Neustadttrain
- Fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane DRS - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Bellinzonatrain
8h 54mCHF 176–519Bus
- Take the bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Lugano Via Giacomo and Filippo Cianibus RegioJet 22
13h 48mCHF 59–115Train
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Zuerich Hbtrain Ec
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Locarnotrain Ir46
18h 56mCHF 290–560
Prague to Locarno by bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Prague to Locarno is to bus via Chur which costs SFr 50 - SFr 90 and takes 13h 3m.
The fastest way to get from Prague to Locarno is to fly and train which takes 6h 36m and costs SFr 35 - SFr 230.
No, there is no direct bus from Prague to Locarno. However, there are services departing from Prague and arriving at Locarno, Debarcadero via Chur, Postautostation and Bellinzona, Stazione. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 13h 3m.
No, there is no direct train from Prague to Locarno. However, there are services departing from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi and arriving at Locarno via München Hbf, Lindau-Reutin, Bregenz, Zürich HB and Bellinzona. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 13h 38m.
The distance between Prague and Locarno is 773 km. The road distance is 760.4 km.
The best way to get from Prague to Locarno without a car is to bus via Chur which takes 13h 3m and costs SFr 50 - SFr 90.
It takes approximately 6h 36m to get from Prague to Locarno, including transfers.
Prague to Locarno bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Prague station.
Prague to Locarno train services, operated by ÖBB EuroCity, depart from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi station.
The best way to get from Prague to Locarno is to bus via Chur which takes 13h 3m and costs SFr 50 - SFr 90. Alternatively, you can train via Munich, which costs SFr 200 - SFr 430 and takes 13h 38m.
What companies run services between Prague, Czechia and Locarno, Switzerland?
You can take a bus from Prague to Locarno, Debarcadero via Chur station train station, Chur, Postautostation, and Bellinzona, Stazione in around 13h 3m. Alternatively, you can take a train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Locarno via Muenchen Hbf, München Hbf, Lindau-Reutin, Bregenz, Zürich HB, and Bellinzona in around 13h 38m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–240
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–430
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–270
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–280
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–650
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–650
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Geneva International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–130
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Geneva International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–410
Flights from Dresden Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–360
Flights from Dresden Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–360
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–220
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–240
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Geneva International Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–130
Flights from Dresden Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–270
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–100
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–130
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–220
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–250
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–240
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–650
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–650
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–170
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–250
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–230
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–150
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–130
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–430
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Cologne Bonn
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–200
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Mendrisio
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 18–55
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Mendrisio to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–50
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bregenz to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–120
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–140
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Genève-Aéroport to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–390
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 14m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–190
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Mendrisio
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Mendrisio to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Monza to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 5–7
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Milano Centrale to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 7–10
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Muenchen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 43m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–150
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden-Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 26m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–65
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 34m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 220–370
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from München Hbf to Lindau, Reutin Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from München Hbf to Lindau, Reutin Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 821 899 825 44
- servus@arverio.de
- Website
- arverio-by.de
Train from München Hbf to Lindau, Reutin Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 57m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- arverio-by.de
- Phone
- +41 58 580 70 70
- Website
- sob.ch
Train from Zürich HB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–55
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
Train from Zürich HB to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–85
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden-Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 20–35
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
Train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden-Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 28–45
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- CHF 28–45
- Phone
- +47 70 13 14 15
- kundehenv@dsb.dk
- Website
- dsb.dk
Train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden-Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–70
- Website
- https://www.dsb.dk/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Prague to Chur station train station
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–70
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +41 (0)848 818 818
- info@postauto.ch
- Website
- postauto.ch
Bus from Chur, Postautostation to Bellinzona, Stazione
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 9–14
- Website
- https://www.postauto.ch
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Lugano Via Giacomo and Filippo Ciani
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–80
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
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Prague to Locarno bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Chur station train station.
Prague to Locarno train services, operated by ÖBB EuroCity, arrive at Muenchen Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Prague to Locarno is 760 km. It takes approximately 7h 53m to drive from Prague to Locarno.
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