Route brief · ZRH → WAS
Zurich → Washington
$826
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Jul 18 '27 – Jul 30 '27 · 12 nights
TAP Air Portugal1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefWASWashingtonFree museums by the dozen, and three airports competing hard enough to keep transatlantic fares honest.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsDulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI)All routes into WashingtonWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Washington: Apr–May · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip — ticketed under TAP Air Portugal, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $826 for 6,653 km each way, that works out to about $62 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Washington, this fare ranks 18th — 1.9× the $432 we hold from London. For context, the middle fare among the 13 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich is $746. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
Route facts
- Airports
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI)
- Flight time
- ~11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,653 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- TAP Air Portugal
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
ZRH → WAS, answered.
How far in advance should I book ZRH → Washington?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Zurich to Washington?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under TAP Air Portugal. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on August 19). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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