VacationSelector

Miami or Salzburg?

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

Your match

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
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.

MiamiSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
MiamiSalzburg
Score950
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km209
Coast distance1 km653 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 16 points.16
MiamiSalzburg
Score6549
Restaurants within 2 km of centre898348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2923
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 37 points.37
MiamiSalzburg
Score2360
Museums within 10 km2842
Museums within 2 km of centre627
Share of museums within 2 km %2164
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Miami leads by 14 points.14
MiamiSalzburg
Score5036
Drinking venues within 4 km538294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5382
Nightclubs within 4 km6316
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 45 points.45
MiamiSalzburg
Score7227
Protected land share 50 km %166
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %48100
Park area within 2 km50 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 4 points.4
MiamiSalzburg
Score4448
Tourist attractions within 2 km1417
Park area within 2 km50 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 4 points.4
MiamiSalzburg
Score4246
Notable places within 2 km4554
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 16 points.16
MiamiSalzburg
Score4359
Price level global10076.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 20 points.20
MiamiSalzburg
Score7454
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Miami
No sunshine record
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. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiSalzburg
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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

MeasureMiamiSalzburg
Official languageGerman, 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
Elevation2 m424 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiSalzburg
City population442,241155,021
People per km²3,0462,360
Museums within 10 km1738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3950
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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. 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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.