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The Plaza de los Naranjos and its fountain in the old town, Marbella
MarbellaThe Plaza de los Naranjos and its fountain in the old town
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Marbella by Décio Franchini, Pexels License; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Marbella 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 Marbella for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Vienna for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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. Marbella 76, Vienna 27: Marbella leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Marbella 60, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Marbella 32, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Marbella 64, Vienna 50: Marbella leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marbella 70, Vienna 62: Marbella leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Marbella 77, Vienna 74: Marbella leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Marbella 70, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Marbella 38, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Marbella 58, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Marbella 30, Vienna 44: Vienna leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marbella 30, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 66 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marbella 52, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marbella and Vienna.

Your match

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

Marbella
55match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Vienna
Best match
66match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Marbella in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 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

Marbella's temperatures are measured 40 km from the centre, at Malaga / Aeropuerto.

Marbella 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. Marbella: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (39.7 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarbellaVienna
Official languageSpanishGerman, 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 number112112
Elevation22 m151 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)39 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarbellaVienna
City population159,7862,028,289
People per km²1,3984,890
Museums within 10 km6152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.