VacationSelector

Nuremberg or Vienna?

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

Your match

Nuremberg
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Nuremberg if the trip is about getting out of the city: 42% of the land around it is protected, and the centre is small enough that its restaurants, bars and attractions are within walking distance.

Choose Vienna if you want museums, evenings out and a dense centre: three times as many museums, 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach and far more places to eat and drink.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

NurembergVienna
Beaches & swimming. Nuremberg and Vienna are level on 0.
NurembergVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km622
Coast distance430 km10,000 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 13 points.13
NurembergVienna
Score6477
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7001,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3337
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 29 points.29
NurembergVienna
Score5281
Museums within 10 km53192
Museums within 2 km of centre29110
Share of museums within 2 km %5557
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 26 points.26
NurembergVienna
Score4874
Drinking venues within 4 km5231,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4271,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8256
Nightclubs within 4 km36108
Nature & day trips. Nuremberg leads by 17 points.17
NurembergVienna
Score4932
Protected land share 50 km %424
Landscape blanket share 50 km %410
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km31 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 10 points.10
NurembergVienna
Score5969
Tourist attractions within 2 km5946
Park area within 2 km31 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 31 points.31
NurembergVienna
Score4475
Notable places within 2 km50287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nuremberg leads by 1 points.1
NurembergVienna
Score6059
Price level global75.976.9
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 1 points.1
NurembergVienna
Score6061
Monthly daytime high3.5 °C to 25.2 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 77 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months41
0255075100

Where they differ

Nuremberg's advantage is what surrounds it: 42% of the land around the city is protected against 4% around Vienna, so countryside starts close to town. Its nightlife is mostly near the centre, and it has somewhat more tourist attractions near the centre.

Vienna is the stronger city break: many times as many notable places within walking distance, about three times as many museums, 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Nuremberg's 1, three times as many bars and clubs, and twice as many restaurants near the centre.

Where they are alike

Neither city is a beach destination. Both are inland, and neither has a month of sea at 21°C or more, so swimming is incidental to either trip rather than a reason to go.

They are close on climate and cost. Both have a January near 3-4°C, a July peak and a similar shape of year, and the national budget estimates behind them sit close together, at €163 for Germany and €160 for Austria.

Which traveller are you?

If you travel for museums and old buildings, Vienna: about three times as many museums as Nuremberg and 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against 1, with most of what you would want to see within walking distance.

If the point of the trip is getting out of the city, Nuremberg: 42% of the surrounding land is protected against 4% around Vienna, so countryside days begin close to town rather than after a long journey.

Families are better served in Vienna, with 4 theme parks within reach and far more park space near the centre, though Nuremberg has somewhat more attractions near its centre and less ground to cover.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €163 for Germany and €160 for Austria, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels, not measurements of either city. A capital and a heavily visited city can both sit far from their country average, by more than the gap between these two figures, so neither reading tells you which trip costs more.

Vienna's larger counts come with distance: about half its drinking places sit near the centre, while Nuremberg's are mostly walkable from it. Beaches near either city are inland ones, and neither has a month of sea at 21°C or more.

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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Nuremberg
4
5
10
15
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Nuremberg
40
33
39
33
61
64
77
60
49
50
47
49
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Nuremberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Nuremberg
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Nuremberg: 1991-2020 normals, Nuernberg (5.5 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Nuremberg peaks in June to August at 23-25°C, though July is its wettest month at 77mm. Its edge is the shoulder season: April is dry at 33mm and May 61mm, both wetter in Vienna, and it has 4 months at 40mm or less across the year against Vienna's 1.

Vienna is the stronger summer city, warmer through June to August at 25-27°C and still 21°C in September, but May is wet at 80mm. October, at 47mm, is the better late option.

Getting there

Flying fromNurembergVienna
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 10 m
€206-349
1 stop
NUE · 5 km
2 h 40 m
€135-192
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 35 m
€139-243
NUE · 5 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
55 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 133 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
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 2026-09 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

MeasureNurembergVienna
Official languageGermanGerman, 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
Elevation209 m151 m
Main airportNuremberg Airport (NUE)5 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNurembergVienna
City population529,5082,028,289
People per km²2,8394,890
Museums within 10 km50152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre71113

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.