Frankfurt and Zurich are only 300 km apart, but Zurich at 408 m elevation averages around 2°C cooler than Frankfurt at 110 m and receives far more precipitation – around 1100 mm versus Frankfurt's 660 mm. Frankfurt compensates with more sunshine hours and considerably milder winters without the characteristic autumn fog of the Swiss Plateau.
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The comparison tool above stacks Frankfurt and Zurich into the same time window. Pick a month from last year, a quarter from 2020, or a full summer, and both cities are scored on the same four metrics: temperature, sunshine, precipitation, and wind. Aggregation switches between day, week, and month depending on how granular you want the trace.
A side-by-side comparison surfaces differences that a single-city view hides. If Frankfurt and Zurich sit in the same climate region, the gaps are small but both cities react similarly to weather patterns. If they sit further apart, coast versus inland or north versus south, regional effects show up directly in the numbers.
Both cities draw from the same dataset: the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis archive, retrieved via the Open-Meteo archive API. Reanalysis means every available satellite and surface measurement is reconciled retrospectively and placed on a consistent grid. Values for Frankfurt and Zurich are therefore directly comparable whether you look at 1970 or 2025.
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