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Philadelphia or Salzburg?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PhiladelphiaSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Philadelphia and Salzburg are level on 0.
PhiladelphiaSalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance13 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 28 points.28
PhiladelphiaSalzburg
Score7749
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3523
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia and Salzburg are level on 60.
PhiladelphiaSalzburg
Score6060
Museums within 10 km8942
Museums within 2 km of centre4827
Share of museums within 2 km %5464
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 23 points.23
PhiladelphiaSalzburg
Score5936
Drinking venues within 4 km930294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6282
Nightclubs within 4 km4116
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 22 points.22
PhiladelphiaSalzburg
Score4927
Protected land share 50 km %146
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 5 points.5
PhiladelphiaSalzburg
Score5348
Tourist attractions within 2 km1617
Park area within 2 km75 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 8 points.8
PhiladelphiaSalzburg
Score5446
Notable places within 2 km8854
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 16 points.16
PhiladelphiaSalzburg
Score4359
Price level global10076.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 6 points.6
PhiladelphiaSalzburg
Score6054
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall69 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaSalzburg
MadridMAD
7 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
10 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
LisbonLIS
7 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
DohaDOH
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 140 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaSalzburg
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
Elevation12 m424 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaSalzburg
City population1,603,797155,021
People per km²4,3392,360
Museums within 10 km5438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre7550

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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). 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.