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Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Nice 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 Nice for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Vienna for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • families

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. Nice 75, Vienna 27: Nice leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Nice 66, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Nice 64, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Nice 47, Vienna 50: Vienna leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nice 80, Vienna 62: Nice leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Nice 87, Vienna 74: Nice leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Nice 57, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Nice 74, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Nice 55, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Nice 35, Vienna 44: Vienna leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nice 45, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nice 40, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nice and Vienna.

Your match

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

Nice
60match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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.

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNiceVienna
Official languageFrenchGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m151 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceVienna
City population357,7372,028,289
People per km²4,9754,890
Museums within 10 km17152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.