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Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Punta Cana 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 Punta Cana for

  • beaches

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

Choose Vienna for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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. Punta Cana 94, Vienna 27: Punta Cana leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Punta Cana 30, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Punta Cana 8, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 81 points.
Nightlife. Punta Cana 40, Vienna 50: Vienna leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta Cana 52, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Punta Cana 35, Vienna 74: Vienna leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Punta Cana 68, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Punta Cana 15, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 75 points.
Shopping & style. Punta Cana 30, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Punta Cana and Vienna are level on 44.
Live music & performing arts. Punta Cana 15, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 81 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta Cana 52, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta Cana and Vienna.

Your match

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

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Vienna
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 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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Punta CanaVienna

Where the figures come from

Punta Cana has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta CanaVienna
Official languageSpanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation28 m151 m
Main airportPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePunta CanaVienna
City population138,9192,028,289
People per km²2924,890
Museums within 10 km0152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. 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. 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.