VacationSelector

New York or Vienna?

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 places to eat 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.

New YorkVienna
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
New YorkVienna
Score640
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1722
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 18 points.18
New YorkVienna
Score9577
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0321,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3837
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 21 points.21
New YorkVienna
Score6081
Museums within 10 km119192
Museums within 2 km of centre31110
Share of museums within 2 km %2657
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. New York leads by 15 points.15
New YorkVienna
Score8974
Drinking venues within 4 km4,1591,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,0151,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4856
Nightclubs within 4 km192108
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 7 points.7
New YorkVienna
Score3932
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 3 points.3
New YorkVienna
Score7269
Tourist attractions within 2 km3746
Park area within 2 km134 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km74
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 1 points.1
New YorkVienna
Score7475
Notable places within 2 km268287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 16 points.16
New YorkVienna
Score4359
Price level global10076.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 3 points.3
New YorkVienna
Score5861
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
1 h 25 m
€49-71
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
1 h 35 m
€84-160
VIE · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
3 h 25 m
€283-311
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
3 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureNew YorkVienna
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 m151 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkVienna
City population8,804,1902,028,289
People per km²7,2564,890
Museums within 10 km157152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre132113
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.