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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Havana 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 Havana for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • getting around

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. Havana 64, Salzburg 35: Havana leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Salzburg 45: Salzburg leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Salzburg 72: Havana leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Salzburg 25: Havana leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Salzburg 32: Havana leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Salzburg 55: Salzburg leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Salzburg.

Your match

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

Havana
47match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

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.

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 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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Where the figures come from

Havana has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaSalzburg
Official languageSpanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105112
Elevation59 m424 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaSalzburg
City population2,492,618155,021
People per km²3,4232,360
Museums within 10 km1238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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). 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). 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.