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The twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara
GuadalajaraThe twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Guadalajara by Ponchomx, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Guadalajara or Salzburg?

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 Guadalajara for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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. Guadalajara 5, Salzburg 35: Salzburg leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Guadalajara 75, Salzburg 45: Guadalajara leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Guadalajara 62, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Guadalajara 68, Salzburg 25: Guadalajara leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guadalajara 55, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Guadalajara 66, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Guadalajara 55, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Guadalajara 40, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Guadalajara 60, Salzburg 48: Guadalajara leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Guadalajara 78, Salzburg 32: Guadalajara leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guadalajara 60, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guadalajara 35, Salzburg 55: Salzburg leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guadalajara and Salzburg.

Your match

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

Guadalajara
55match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Guadalajara in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Guadalajara has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Guadalajara: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuadalajaraSalzburg
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,536 m424 m
Main airportGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuadalajaraSalzburg
City population1,385,621155,021
People per km²9,5562,360
Museums within 10 km1738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.