VacationSelector

Paris or Salzburg?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

ParisSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Paris and Salzburg are level on 0.
ParisSalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km29
Coast distance149 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 41 points.41
ParisSalzburg
Score9049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,732348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3323
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 16 points.16
ParisSalzburg
Score7660
Museums within 10 km18542
Museums within 2 km of centre6527
Share of museums within 2 km %3564
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Paris leads by 52 points.52
ParisSalzburg
Score8836
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4582
Nightclubs within 4 km20116
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 21 points.21
ParisSalzburg
Score4827
Protected land share 50 km %286
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km82 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 27 points.27
ParisSalzburg
Score7548
Tourist attractions within 2 km8917
Park area within 2 km82 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 48 points.48
ParisSalzburg
Score9446
Notable places within 2 km86554
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 3 points.3
ParisSalzburg
Score6259
Price level global73.776.9
Daily budget€160€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 12 points.12
ParisSalzburg
Score6654
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm47 mm to 168 mm
Dry months10
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisSalzburg
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 20 m
€138-242
ORY · 14 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
€177-208
CDG · 22 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 45 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 45 m
€806-1124
CDG · 22 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

MeasureParisSalzburg
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
Elevation27 m424 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisSalzburg
City population2,103,778155,021
People per km²19,9602,360
Museums within 10 km25138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre16950

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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.