VacationSelector

Cardiff or Salzburg?

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

Your match

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

CardiffSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
CardiffSalzburg
Score460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km89
Coast distance2 km653 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 11 points.11
CardiffSalzburg
Score6049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3223
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 21 points.21
CardiffSalzburg
Score3960
Museums within 10 km6142
Museums within 2 km of centre627
Share of museums within 2 km %1064
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 12 points.12
CardiffSalzburg
Score4836
Drinking venues within 4 km536294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7482
Nightclubs within 4 km3516
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 23 points.23
CardiffSalzburg
Score5027
Protected land share 50 km %186
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 16 points.16
CardiffSalzburg
Score3248
Tourist attractions within 2 km417
Park area within 2 km88 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 1 points.1
CardiffSalzburg
Score4546
Notable places within 2 km5154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 5 points.5
CardiffSalzburg
Score5459
Price level global84.976.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cardiff and Salzburg are level on 54.
CardiffSalzburg
Score5454
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm47 mm to 168 mm
Dry months00
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
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
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffSalzburg
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
3 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
New DelhiDEL
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
8 h 30 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCardiffSalzburg
Official languageEnglishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m424 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffSalzburg
City population383,536155,021
People per km²2,7342,360
Museums within 10 km938
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5550
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.