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Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock

Photos: Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Innsbruck or Petra?

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
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Petra for

  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’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, Petra 5: Innsbruck leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Petra 22: Innsbruck leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Petra 85: Petra leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck 38, Petra 5: Innsbruck leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Petra 78: Innsbruck leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck 72, Petra 30: Innsbruck leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Innsbruck 62, Petra 25: Innsbruck leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Petra 25: Innsbruck leads by 53 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Petra 18: Innsbruck leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck 38, Petra 45: Petra leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Petra 10: Innsbruck leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Petra 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 Petra.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Petra
31match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckPetra
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112911
Elevation574 m850 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckPetra
City population132,499-
People per km²1,263-
Museums within 10 km282
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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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. 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.