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Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Chicago
ChicagoCloud Gate in Millennium Park
Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn

Photos: Chicago by Jesus Toledo, Pexels License; Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Chicago 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 Chicago for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Innsbruck for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • wellness

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. Chicago 50, Innsbruck 20: Chicago leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Chicago 80, Innsbruck 40: Chicago leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Chicago 78, Innsbruck 58: Chicago leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Chicago 77, Innsbruck 38: Chicago leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chicago 48, Innsbruck 96: Innsbruck leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Chicago 42, Innsbruck 72: Innsbruck leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Chicago 78, Innsbruck 62: Chicago leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Chicago 72, Innsbruck 78: Innsbruck leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Chicago 70, Innsbruck 38: Chicago leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Chicago 33, Innsbruck 38: Innsbruck leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chicago 82, Innsbruck 45: Chicago leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chicago 33, Innsbruck 45: Innsbruck leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chicago and Innsbruck.

Your match

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

Chicago
Best match
62match

Wins on food and drink 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.

Chicago in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 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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ChicagoInnsbruck

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChicagoInnsbruck
Official language-German, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m574 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre274 non-stop destinationsInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoInnsbruck
City population2,746,388132,499
People per km²4,5291,263
Museums within 10 km4428
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month-

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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). 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.

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.