VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Vienna?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
45
match

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

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

HeidelbergVienna
Beaches & swimming. Heidelberg and Vienna are level on 0.
HeidelbergVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km622
Coast distance406 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 30 points.30
HeidelbergVienna
Score4777
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2637
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 22 points.22
HeidelbergVienna
Score5981
Museums within 10 km54192
Museums within 2 km of centre23110
Share of museums within 2 km %4357
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 47 points.47
HeidelbergVienna
Score2774
Drinking venues within 4 km2011,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1691,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8456
Nightclubs within 4 km8108
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 42 points.42
HeidelbergVienna
Score7432
Protected land share 50 km %524
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 26 points.26
HeidelbergVienna
Score4369
Tourist attractions within 2 km2946
Park area within 2 km20 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 39 points.39
HeidelbergVienna
Score3675
Notable places within 2 km31287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Heidelberg leads by 1 points.1
HeidelbergVienna
Score6059
Price level global75.976.9
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Heidelberg and Vienna are level on 61.
HeidelbergVienna
Score6161
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Heidelberg
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
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
BerlinBER
1 h 10 m
€157-188
FRA · 69 km
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 10 m
€147-192
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
1 h 35 m
€179-225
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
10 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 69 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

MeasureHeidelbergVienna
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
Elevation114 m151 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergVienna
City population162,9602,028,289
People per km²1,4964,890
Museums within 10 km17152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre45113

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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.