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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Interlaken or Vienna?

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 Interlaken for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Vienna for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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. Interlaken 30, Vienna 27: Interlaken leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 81 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Vienna 50: Vienna leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Vienna 62: Interlaken leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Vienna 74: Interlaken leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Vienna 44: Vienna leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 81 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Vienna.

Your match

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

Interlaken
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Interlaken 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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenVienna
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m151 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenVienna
City population6,1232,028,289
People per km²1,4244,890
Museums within 10 km3152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.