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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Key West or Salzburg?

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 Key West for

  • nightlife
  • beaches

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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. Key West 60, Salzburg 35: Key West leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Key West and Salzburg are level on 45.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Key West 62, Salzburg 25: Key West leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Salzburg 32: Salzburg leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Salzburg 55: Salzburg leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West and Salzburg.

Your match

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

Key West
44match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips 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.

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestSalzburg
Official language-German, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m424 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestSalzburg
City population26,444155,021
People per km²1,4072,360
Museums within 10 km738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.