VacationSelector

Innsbruck or Madrid?

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

Your match

Innsbruck
44
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

InnsbruckMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Innsbruck and Madrid are level on 0.
InnsbruckMadrid
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km104
Coast distance217 km305 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 37 points.37
InnsbruckMadrid
Score4683
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2703,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2428
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 27 points.27
InnsbruckMadrid
Score4875
Museums within 10 km3497
Museums within 2 km of centre2159
Share of museums within 2 km %6261
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 47 points.47
InnsbruckMadrid
Score3481
Drinking venues within 4 km2712,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2161,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8062
Nightclubs within 4 km16341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 3 points.3
InnsbruckMadrid
Score6063
Protected land share 50 km %3119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km38 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 32 points.32
InnsbruckMadrid
Score4577
Tourist attractions within 2 km1861
Park area within 2 km38 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 30 points.30
InnsbruckMadrid
Score4575
Notable places within 2 km53288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 12 points.12
InnsbruckMadrid
Score5971
Price level global76.960.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 13 points.13
InnsbruckMadrid
Score5972
Monthly daytime high3.9 °C to 25.6 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 144 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months17
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
Innsbruck
4
7
12
16
21
24
26
25
21
16
9
4
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Innsbruck
50
40
59
60
90
119
129
144
89
70
63
59
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Innsbruck
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Innsbruck
3
4
6
6
7
7
8
7
6
5
3
3
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInnsbruckMadrid
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 124 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 25 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
2 h 50 m
€109-153
MAD · 14 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
10 h 30 m
€636-955
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
KutaisiKUT
3 h 45 m
€221-277
2 stops
FMM · 118 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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 2026-08 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

MeasureInnsbruckMadrid
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageSpanish
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
Elevation574 m663 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckMadrid
City population132,4993,506,730
People per km²1,2635,801
Museums within 10 km2788
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre47106

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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.