VacationSelector

London or Salzburg?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LondonSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. London and Salzburg are level on 0.
LondonSalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km479
Coast distance43 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 39 points.39
LondonSalzburg
Score8849
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4023
Museums & heritage. London leads by 12 points.12
LondonSalzburg
Score7260
Museums within 10 km14842
Museums within 2 km of centre4927
Share of museums within 2 km %3364
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. London leads by 59 points.59
LondonSalzburg
Score9536
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4682
Nightclubs within 4 km31216
Nature & day trips. London leads by 13 points.13
LondonSalzburg
Score4027
Protected land share 50 km %166
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 27 points.27
LondonSalzburg
Score7548
Tourist attractions within 2 km8517
Park area within 2 km84 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. London leads by 43 points.43
LondonSalzburg
Score8946
Notable places within 2 km64954
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 5 points.5
LondonSalzburg
Score5459
Price level global84.976.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. London leads by 9 points.9
LondonSalzburg
Score6354
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm47 mm to 168 mm
Dry months10
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonSalzburg
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
3 h 30 m
€258-349
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureLondonSalzburg
Official languageEnglishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m424 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonSalzburg
City population8,799,728155,021
People per km²5,5982,360
Museums within 10 km21538
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre11650

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.