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Budapest or Innsbruck?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

BudapestInnsbruck
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Innsbruck are level on 0.
BudapestInnsbruck
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km610
Coast distance10,000 km217 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 31 points.31
BudapestInnsbruck
Score7746
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699270
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3524
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 16 points.16
BudapestInnsbruck
Score6448
Museums within 10 km14434
Museums within 2 km of centre6421
Share of museums within 2 km %4462
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 38 points.38
BudapestInnsbruck
Score7234
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765271
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6680
Nightclubs within 4 km9716
Nature & day trips. Innsbruck leads by 20 points.20
BudapestInnsbruck
Score4060
Protected land share 50 km %831
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km111 hectares38 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 26 points.26
BudapestInnsbruck
Score7145
Tourist attractions within 2 km7518
Park area within 2 km111 hectares38 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 24 points.24
BudapestInnsbruck
Score6945
Notable places within 2 km20653
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 21 points.21
BudapestInnsbruck
Score8059
Price level global4876.9
Daily budget€104€160
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 5 points.5
BudapestInnsbruck
Score6459
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C3.9 °C to 25.6 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Innsbruck
4
7
12
16
21
24
26
25
21
16
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Innsbruck
50
40
59
60
90
119
129
144
89
70
63
59
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Innsbruck
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestInnsbruck
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 124 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 124 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 124 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
8 h 30 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

MeasureBudapestInnsbruck
Official languageHungarianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyForint (HUF)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
Elevation117 m574 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestInnsbruck
City population1,685,209132,499
People per km²3,2091,263
Museums within 10 km8127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8647

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.