VacationSelector

Bologna or Vienna?

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

Your match

Bologna
52
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

BolognaVienna
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Vienna are level on 0.
BolognaVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km222
Coast distance74 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 19 points.19
BolognaVienna
Score5877
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8221,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2037
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 14 points.14
BolognaVienna
Score6781
Museums within 10 km58192
Museums within 2 km of centre43110
Share of museums within 2 km %7457
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 21 points.21
BolognaVienna
Score5374
Drinking venues within 4 km7201,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5311,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7456
Nightclubs within 4 km30108
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 7 points.7
BolognaVienna
Score3932
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 14 points.14
BolognaVienna
Score5569
Tourist attractions within 2 km3246
Park area within 2 km119 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 15 points.15
BolognaVienna
Score6075
Notable places within 2 km120287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 9 points.9
BolognaVienna
Score6859
Price level global64.976.9
Daily budget€155€160
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BolognaVienna
Score6761
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm38 mm to 80 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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
€96-199
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€90-150
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
MaleMLE
9 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaVienna
Official languageItalianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m151 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaVienna
City population387,9712,028,289
People per km²2,7544,890
Museums within 10 km66152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre62113

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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.