VacationSelector

Barcelona or Innsbruck?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Innsbruck
44
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BarcelonaInnsbruck
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 65 points.65
BarcelonaInnsbruck
Score650
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2010
Coast distance2 km217 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 44 points.44
BarcelonaInnsbruck
Score9046
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786270
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4124
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 20 points.20
BarcelonaInnsbruck
Score6848
Museums within 10 km10534
Museums within 2 km of centre4921
Share of museums within 2 km %4762
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 48 points.48
BarcelonaInnsbruck
Score8234
Drinking venues within 4 km2,711271
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6180
Nightclubs within 4 km24516
Nature & day trips. Innsbruck leads by 10 points.10
BarcelonaInnsbruck
Score5060
Protected land share 50 km %1031
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares38 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 20 points.20
BarcelonaInnsbruck
Score6545
Tourist attractions within 2 km6018
Park area within 2 km49 hectares38 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 28 points.28
BarcelonaInnsbruck
Score7345
Notable places within 2 km25853
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 12 points.12
BarcelonaInnsbruck
Score7159
Price level global60.876.9
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 19 points.19
BarcelonaInnsbruck
Score7859
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C3.9 °C to 25.6 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm40 mm to 144 mm
Dry months51
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Innsbruck
4
7
12
16
21
24
26
25
21
16
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Innsbruck
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Innsbruck
50
40
59
60
90
119
129
144
89
70
63
59
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Innsbruck
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
Innsbruck
3
4
6
6
7
7
8
7
6
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaInnsbruck
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
PalmaPMI
55 m
€40-57
BCN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 124 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 124 km
KutaisiKUT
4 h 35 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
3 h 45 m
€221-277
2 stops
FMM · 118 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 55 m
€459-799
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 0 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBarcelonaInnsbruck
Official languageSpanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation9 m574 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaInnsbruck
City population1,731,649132,499
People per km²17,0941,263
Museums within 10 km9527
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre12847
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.