VacationSelector
Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum

Photos: Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Innsbruck or Rome?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Rome for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Rome’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, Rome 50: Rome leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Rome 82: Rome leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Rome 99: Rome leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck 38, Rome 58: Rome leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Rome 58: Innsbruck leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck 72, Rome 92: Rome leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Innsbruck 62, Rome 50: Innsbruck leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Rome 60: Innsbruck leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Rome 72: Rome leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck and Rome are level on 38.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Rome 68: Rome leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Rome 40: Innsbruck leads by 5 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Innsbruck and Rome.

Your match

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

Innsbruck
53match

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

Rome
Best match
64match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights 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
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150JFMAMJJASOND
InnsbruckRome

Where the figures come from

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckRome
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation574 m21 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckRome
City population132,4992,748,109
People per km²1,2632,135
Museums within 10 km28178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Innsbruck or Rome somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.