VacationSelector

New York or Salzburg?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

New YorkSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
New YorkSalzburg
Score640
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km179
Coast distance1 km653 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 46 points.46
New YorkSalzburg
Score9549
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3823
Museums & heritage. New York and Salzburg are level on 60.
New YorkSalzburg
Score6060
Museums within 10 km11942
Museums within 2 km of centre3127
Share of museums within 2 km %2664
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. New York leads by 53 points.53
New YorkSalzburg
Score8936
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4882
Nightclubs within 4 km19216
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 12 points.12
New YorkSalzburg
Score3927
Protected land share 50 km %46
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 24 points.24
New YorkSalzburg
Score7248
Tourist attractions within 2 km3717
Park area within 2 km134 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km74
Sights concentration. New York leads by 28 points.28
New YorkSalzburg
Score7446
Notable places within 2 km26854
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 16 points.16
New YorkSalzburg
Score4359
Price level global10076.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. New York leads by 4 points.4
New YorkSalzburg
Score5854
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkSalzburg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
10 h 0 m
€606-724
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
4 h 40 m
€374-446
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
3 h 45 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

MeasureNew YorkSalzburg
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
Elevation25 m424 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkSalzburg
City population8,804,190155,021
People per km²7,2562,360
Museums within 10 km15738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre13250
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.