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Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Innsbruck or Sydney?

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

  • day trips
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Sydney for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck 38, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Sydney 85: Innsbruck leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck 72, Sydney 50: Innsbruck leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Innsbruck 62, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Sydney 75: Innsbruck leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck 38, Sydney 22: Innsbruck leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Sydney 55: Sydney leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Innsbruck and Sydney.

Your match

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

Innsbruck
53match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on beaches 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
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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InnsbruckSydney

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckSydney
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation574 m6 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckSydney
City population132,4995,450,496
People per km²1,263449
Museums within 10 km2838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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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.