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Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Innsbruck or Santa Fe?

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
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Santa Fe for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’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, Santa Fe 5: Innsbruck leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Santa Fe 66: Santa Fe leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck 38, Santa Fe 22: Innsbruck leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Santa Fe 80: Innsbruck leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck 72, Santa Fe 70: Innsbruck leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Innsbruck 62, Santa Fe 45: Innsbruck leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Santa Fe 40: Innsbruck leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck 38, Santa Fe 30: Innsbruck leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Innsbruck and Santa Fe.

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 families with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on shopping and food and drink 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

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckSanta Fe
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign Language-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation574 m2,134 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckSanta Fe
City population132,49987,505
People per km²1,263645
Museums within 10 km2810
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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.