Graz Guide is not a picture book. It lists opening hours, prices, bus lines and seasonal windows — every figure with the date it was checked and the source it came from. Because that is what you actually need before you set off.
Day trips from Graz
Graz is well placed: a spa, a castle and a mountain are each about an hour away. What decides a day trip is rarely the scenery — it is whether the place is open, what it costs, and whether you can get there without a car.
Therme Loipersdorf
- By car
- approx. 50 min
- Without a car
- Mon–Fri only
- Adults Mon–Fri
- € 46.00
- Sauna included
- yes
- Parking
- free
- Season
- all year
Checked 29 Aug 2026 therme.at
Riegersburg
- By car
- approx. 50 min
- Without a car
- Sat/Sun only
- „Ritter“ ticket
- € 23.90
- Lift included
- yes
- Parking
- free
- Season
- until 1 November
Checked 29 Aug 2026 dieriegersburg.at
Schöckl
- Without a car
- bus 250, direct
- Cable car, summer
- 09:00–17:00
- Up and down
- € 19.40
- Child 6–18
- € 8.60
- On foot from St. Radegund
- approx. 2 h
- Parking with ticket
- free
Source dated 21 May 2026 — re-check holding-graz.at
Why every figure carries a date
Opening hours change. Prices rise at the turn of the season. Bus routes get moved. Most travel sites write these things down once and leave them there — and whoever relies on that ends up at a closed door.
So every fact card here carries the date it was checked and the source it came from. That source is always the operator’s own page, never an excursion portal. Where something could not be verified, it says so plainly — instead of a plausible-sounding number.
The Schöckl card above carries a yellow date. The operator’s site blocks automated access, so the figures come from an archived version dated May 2026. Better visibly three months old than invisibly wrong.
What comes next
The day-trip cluster is being finished first: Riegersburg and Schöckl as their own articles, then Schloss Eggenberg and an overview of the city itself. The English edition follows the German one, article by article — nothing here is machine-translated on spec.