VacationSelector

Brussels or Vienna?

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

Your match

Brussels
56
match

Wins on places to eat and value for money with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

BrusselsVienna
Beaches & swimming. Brussels and Vienna are level on 0.
BrusselsVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance56 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 4 points.4
BrusselsVienna
Score8177
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7791,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4437
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 1 points.1
BrusselsVienna
Score8081
Museums within 10 km120192
Museums within 2 km of centre59110
Share of museums within 2 km %4957
Unesco sites within 50 km103
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 6 points.6
BrusselsVienna
Score6874
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4141,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8621,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6156
Nightclubs within 4 km84108
Nature & day trips. Vienna leads by 1 points.1
BrusselsVienna
Score3132
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 13 points.13
BrusselsVienna
Score5669
Tourist attractions within 2 km2846
Park area within 2 km65 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 2 points.2
BrusselsVienna
Score7375
Notable places within 2 km254287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brussels leads by 1 points.1
BrusselsVienna
Score6059
Price level global76.276.9
Daily budget€180€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 4 points.4
BrusselsVienna
Score5761
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€152-183
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€84-160
VIE · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€49-71
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
10 h 35 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureBrusselsVienna
Official languageFrench, German, DutchGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m151 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsVienna
City population195,5462,028,289
People per km²5,9084,890
Museums within 10 km105152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km103
Distinct cuisines in the centre109113

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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.