VacationSelector

Berlin or Salzburg?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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Scoreboard

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

BerlinSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Salzburg are level on 0.
BerlinSalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km179
Coast distance142 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 21 points.21
BerlinSalzburg
Score7049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3323
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 19 points.19
BerlinSalzburg
Score7960
Museums within 10 km20042
Museums within 2 km of centre8127
Share of museums within 2 km %4164
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 40 points.40
BerlinSalzburg
Score7636
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3482
Nightclubs within 4 km13516
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 22 points.22
BerlinSalzburg
Score4927
Protected land share 50 km %206
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 28 points.28
BerlinSalzburg
Score7648
Tourist attractions within 2 km5417
Park area within 2 km141 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 38 points.38
BerlinSalzburg
Score8446
Notable places within 2 km48654
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 1 points.1
BerlinSalzburg
Score6059
Price level global75.976.9
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 6 points.6
BerlinSalzburg
Score6054
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm47 mm to 168 mm
Dry months30
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinSalzburg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
€158-204
1 stop
BER · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€126-154
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
2 h 45 m
€200
BER · 19 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBerlinSalzburg
Official languageGermanGerman, 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
Elevation34 m424 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinSalzburg
City population3,782,202155,021
People per km²4,2442,360
Museums within 10 km15838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre8650

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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. 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.