VacationSelector
The twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara
GuadalajaraThe twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Guadalajara by Ponchomx, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Guadalajara or Vienna?

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 Vienna for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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, Vienna 27: Vienna leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Guadalajara 75, Vienna 68: Guadalajara leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Guadalajara 62, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Guadalajara 68, Vienna 50: Guadalajara leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guadalajara 55, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Guadalajara 66, Vienna 74: Vienna leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Guadalajara 55, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Guadalajara 40, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Guadalajara 60, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Guadalajara 78, Vienna 44: Guadalajara leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guadalajara 60, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guadalajara 35, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 23 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guadalajara and Vienna.

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.

Vienna
Best match
66match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200250JFMAMJJASOND
GuadalajaraVienna

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. Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuadalajaraVienna
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 m151 m
Main airportGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuadalajaraVienna
City population1,385,6212,028,289
People per km²9,5564,890
Museums within 10 km17152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Guadalajara or Vienna somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.