VacationSelector

Frankfurt or Vienna?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Frankfurt
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

FrankfurtVienna
Beaches & swimming. Frankfurt and Vienna are level on 0.
FrankfurtVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km422
Coast distance327 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 7 points.7
FrankfurtVienna
Score7077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1601,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3137
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 12 points.12
FrankfurtVienna
Score6981
Museums within 10 km79192
Museums within 2 km of centre43110
Share of museums within 2 km %5457
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 15 points.15
FrankfurtVienna
Score5974
Drinking venues within 4 km9311,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6911,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7456
Nightclubs within 4 km56108
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 32 points.32
FrankfurtVienna
Score6432
Protected land share 50 km %284
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km124 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 1 points.1
FrankfurtVienna
Score6869
Tourist attractions within 2 km4546
Park area within 2 km124 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 14 points.14
FrankfurtVienna
Score6175
Notable places within 2 km129287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Frankfurt leads by 1 points.1
FrankfurtVienna
Score6059
Price level global75.976.9
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Frankfurt leads by 1 points.1
FrankfurtVienna
Score6261
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months11
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
BerlinBER
1 h 10 m
€157-188
FRA · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 10 m
€147-192
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€179-225
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
10 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasureFrankfurtVienna
Official languageGermanGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)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
Elevation101 m151 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtVienna
City population775,7902,028,289
People per km²3,1244,890
Museums within 10 km53152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre71113

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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). 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.