There are 10 ways to get from Prague to Locarno by plane, train, bus, or car
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Fly 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 37mCHF 45–259Bus
- Take the bus from Prague to Chur train stationbus FlixBus N1308
- Take the bus from Chur, Postautostation to Bellinzona, Stazionebus 171
13h 3mCHF 59–94Train
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Zuerich Hbtrain Ec
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Bellinzonatrain Ec / ...
17h 12mCHF 275–468Drive 781.7 km
- Drive from Prague to Locarnocar 781.7 km
7h 23mCHF 128–184Fly 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 39mCHF 140–272Fly to Il Caravaggio International Airport, bus, train
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY)plane PRG - BGY
- Take the bus from Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport to Piazza Luigi di Savoiabus
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Locarnotrain
7h 32mCHF 58–227Fly 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 36mCHF 100–236Fly to Basel, train
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Basel (BSL)plane PRG - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Bellinzonatrain
8h 8mCHF 80–443Fly 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 217–634Bus, train
- Take the bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Sankt Gallenbus
- Take the train from St. Gallen to Churtrain
- Take the bus from Chur, Postautostation to Bellinzona, Stazionebus 171
13h 56mCHF 127–154
Prague to Locarno by bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Prague to Locarno is to bus which costs SFr 55 - SFr 95 and takes 13h 3m.
The fastest way to get from Prague to Locarno is to fly and train which takes 6h 37m and costs SFr 45 - SFr 260.
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 Zürich HB and Bellinzona. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 17h 12m.
The distance between Prague and Locarno is 773 km. The road distance is 781.7 km.
The best way to get from Prague to Locarno without a car is to bus which takes 13h 3m and costs SFr 55 - SFr 95.
It takes approximately 6h 37m 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 which takes 13h 3m and costs SFr 55 - SFr 95. Alternatively, you can train, which costs SFr 270 - SFr 470 and takes 17h 12m.
What companies run services between Prague, Czechia and Locarno, Switzerland?
You can take a bus from Prague to Locarno, Debarcadero via Chur train station, Chur, Postautostation, and Bellinzona, Stazione in around 13h 3m. Alternatively, you can take a train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Locarno via Zuerich Hb, Zürich HB, and Bellinzona in around 17h 12m.
- 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 65–240
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–450
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–280
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–290
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–260
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–250
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 56m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–200
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–550
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Geneva International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–220
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Geneva International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–550
- 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 70–240
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–150
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Geneva International Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–220
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–110
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–200
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Friday, Wednesday, Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–180
- 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 70–240
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–250
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–150
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–260
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–250
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–180
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–280
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–140
- 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 65–250
- Website
- neosair.it
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–320
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–450
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–160
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Il Caravaggio International Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–230
- Website
- luxair.lu
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Milan Linate Airport via Luxembourg
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Monday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–380
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- Trenord
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Mendrisio
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 4–6
- Website
- Trenord
Train from Mendrisio to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 4–6
- Website
- Trenord
Train from Milano Centrale to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 7–10
- Website
- Trenord
Train from Monza to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 5–7
- Website
- Trenord
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Mendrisio
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 19–60
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Mendrisio to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–55
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich HB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–160
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich HB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–160
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Basel SBB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 38m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–230
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Genève-Aéroport to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 140–430
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 34m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 220–390
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Phone
- +41 58 580 70 70
- Website
- Schweizerische Südostbahn AG
Train from Zürich HB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–70
- Schedules at
- Schweizerische Südostbahn AG
Train from Zürich HB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–70
- Schedules at
- Schweizerische Südostbahn AG
Train from Basel SBB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 56m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–95
- Schedules at
- Schweizerische Südostbahn AG
Train from St. Gallen to Chur
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–50
- Schedules at
- Schweizerische Südostbahn AG
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- SBB GmbH
Train from Basel SBB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–22
- Schedules at
- SBB GmbH
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Prague to Chur train station
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–75
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +41 (0)848 818 818
- info@postauto.ch
- Website
- PostAuto AG
Bus from Chur, Postautostation to Bellinzona, Stazione
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 9–14
- Website
- PostAuto AG
Bus from Chur, Postautostation to Bellinzona, Stazione
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 9–14
- Website
- PostAuto AG
- customerservices@terravision.eu
- Website
- TERRAVISION
Bus from Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport to Piazza Luigi di Savoia
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 4–23
- Website
- TERRAVISION
- Phone
- +420 602 333 369
- noblessline@noblessline.cz
- Website
- noblessline.cz
Bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Sankt Gallen
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 83
- Schedules at
- noblessline.cz
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More Questions & Answers
Prague to Locarno bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Chur train station.
Prague to Locarno train services, operated by ÖBB EuroCity, arrive at Zuerich Hb station.
Yes, the driving distance between Prague to Locarno is 782 km. It takes approximately 7h 23m to drive from Prague to Locarno.
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