VacationSelector

London or Vienna?

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.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and 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.

LondonVienna
Beaches & swimming. London and Vienna are level on 0.
LondonVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4722
Coast distance43 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 11 points.11
LondonVienna
Score8877
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3171,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4037
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 9 points.9
LondonVienna
Score7281
Museums within 10 km148192
Museums within 2 km of centre49110
Share of museums within 2 km %3357
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. London leads by 21 points.21
LondonVienna
Score9574
Drinking venues within 4 km5,3271,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,4431,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4656
Nightclubs within 4 km312108
Nature & day trips. London leads by 8 points.8
LondonVienna
Score4032
Protected land share 50 km %164
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 6 points.6
LondonVienna
Score7569
Tourist attractions within 2 km8546
Park area within 2 km84 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. London leads by 14 points.14
LondonVienna
Score8975
Notable places within 2 km649287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 5 points.5
LondonVienna
Score5459
Price level global84.976.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. London leads by 2 points.2
LondonVienna
Score6361
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months11
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLondonVienna
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
€79-116
LGW · 40 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
1 h 25 m
€49-71
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 5 m
€144-189
LGW · 40 km
2 h 40 m
€135-192
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
10 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasureLondonVienna
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 m151 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonVienna
City population8,799,7282,028,289
People per km²5,5984,890
Museums within 10 km215152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre116113

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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.