VacationSelector

Catania or Salzburg?

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

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

CataniaSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 58 points.58
CataniaSalzburg
Score580
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km59
Coast distance1 km653 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Catania and Salzburg are level on 49.
CataniaSalzburg
Score4949
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1423
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 1 points.1
CataniaSalzburg
Score5960
Museums within 10 km3442
Museums within 2 km of centre2727
Share of museums within 2 km %7964
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Catania leads by 11 points.11
CataniaSalzburg
Score4736
Drinking venues within 4 km537294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7582
Nightclubs within 4 km1816
Nature & day trips. Catania leads by 4 points.4
CataniaSalzburg
Score3127
Protected land share 50 km %106
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km11 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 12 points.12
CataniaSalzburg
Score3648
Tourist attractions within 2 km2517
Park area within 2 km11 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 7 points.7
CataniaSalzburg
Score3946
Notable places within 2 km3754
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 9 points.9
CataniaSalzburg
Score6859
Price level global64.976.9
Daily budget€155€160
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 23 points.23
CataniaSalzburg
Score7754
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm47 mm to 168 mm
Dry months50
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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaSalzburg
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
2 h 35 m
€133-162
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
€89-123
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
AthensATH
1 h 35 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
BolognaBLQ
1 h 40 m
€38-100
CTA · 4 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 55 m
€157-299
CTA · 4 km
3 h 45 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCataniaSalzburg
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
Elevation7 m424 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaSalzburg
City population311,584155,021
People per km²1,7042,360
Museums within 10 km2538
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre3050
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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). 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.