VacationSelector

Maastricht or Salzburg?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

MaastrichtSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Maastricht and Salzburg are level on 0.
MaastrichtSalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km69
Coast distance118 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Salzburg leads by 1 points.1
MaastrichtSalzburg
Score4849
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2223
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 7 points.7
MaastrichtSalzburg
Score5360
Museums within 10 km2342
Museums within 2 km of centre1327
Share of museums within 2 km %5764
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Salzburg leads by 6 points.6
MaastrichtSalzburg
Score3036
Drinking venues within 4 km223294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8282
Nightclubs within 4 km1316
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 10 points.10
MaastrichtSalzburg
Score3727
Protected land share 50 km %196
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km33 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 2 points.2
MaastrichtSalzburg
Score4648
Tourist attractions within 2 km1517
Park area within 2 km33 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 10 points.10
MaastrichtSalzburg
Score3646
Notable places within 2 km3254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 1 points.1
MaastrichtSalzburg
Score5859
Price level global79.276.9
Daily budget€181€160
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 5 points.5
MaastrichtSalzburg
Score5954
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 mm47 mm to 168 mm
Dry months00
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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtSalzburg
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
3 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 85 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureMaastrichtSalzburg
Official languageDutchGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m424 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtSalzburg
City population120,227155,021
People per km²2,0002,360
Museums within 10 km2138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre3350

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

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.