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Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower

Photos: Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Johannesburg by K, Pexels License.

Innsbruck or Johannesburg?

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 Innsbruck for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Johannesburg for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Johannesburg’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. Innsbruck 20, Johannesburg 5: Innsbruck leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Johannesburg 56: Innsbruck leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck 38, Johannesburg 62: Johannesburg leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Johannesburg 55: Innsbruck leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck 72, Johannesburg 52: Innsbruck leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Innsbruck 62, Johannesburg 42: Innsbruck leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Johannesburg 18: Innsbruck leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck 38, Johannesburg 72: Johannesburg leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Johannesburg 55: Johannesburg leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Johannesburg 28: Innsbruck leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Innsbruck and Johannesburg.

Your match

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

Innsbruck
Best match
53match

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

Johannesburg
47match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Innsbruck in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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InnsbruckJohannesburg

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckJohannesburg
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112112
Elevation574 m1,753 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre84 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckJohannesburg
City population132,4994,803,262
People per km²1,2632,922
Museums within 10 km2814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.