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Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
The old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds

Photos: Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Innsbruck or Sapporo?

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

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Sapporo for

  • food and drink
  • wellness
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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, Sapporo 28: Sapporo leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Sapporo 40: Innsbruck leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck 38, Sapporo 62: Sapporo leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Sapporo 86: Innsbruck leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck 72, Sapporo 64: Innsbruck leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Innsbruck 62, Sapporo 72: Sapporo leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Sapporo 58: Sapporo leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck 38, Sapporo 60: Sapporo leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Sapporo 44: Innsbruck leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Innsbruck and Sapporo.

Your match

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

Innsbruck
53match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and wellness 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

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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InnsbruckSapporo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckSapporo
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation574 m5 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckSapporo
City population132,4991,959,313
People per km²1,2631,747
Museums within 10 km2833
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.