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Yellow colonial houses in the walled city, Cartagena
CartagenaYellow colonial houses in the walled city
Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn

Photos: Cartagena by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Cartagena or Innsbruck?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Cartagena for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Cartagena’s own page.

Choose Innsbruck for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Innsbruck’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Cartagena 70, Innsbruck 20: Cartagena leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Cartagena 62, Innsbruck 40: Cartagena leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Cartagena 68, Innsbruck 58: Cartagena leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Cartagena 70, Innsbruck 38: Cartagena leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cartagena 46, Innsbruck 96: Innsbruck leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Cartagena 33, Innsbruck 72: Innsbruck leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Cartagena 40, Innsbruck 62: Innsbruck leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Cartagena 54, Innsbruck 78: Innsbruck leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Cartagena 48, Innsbruck 38: Cartagena leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cartagena 60, Innsbruck 38: Cartagena leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cartagena 40, Innsbruck 45: Innsbruck leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cartagena 40, Innsbruck 45: Innsbruck leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cartagena and Innsbruck.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Cartagena
53match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Innsbruck
53match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cartagena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
124 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Innsbruck in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CartagenaInnsbruck

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cartagena: 1991-2020 normals, Cartagena / Rafael Nunez (3.1 km from centre). Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCartagenaInnsbruck
Official languageSpanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number123112
Elevation2 m574 m
Main airportRafael Nuñez International Airport (CTG)2 km from centre26 non-stop destinationsInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCartagenaInnsbruck
City population914,552132,499
People per km²1,5991,263
Museums within 10 km228
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.