VacationSelector

Rio de Janeiro or Salzburg?

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

Your match

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

Rio de JaneiroSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 100 points.100
Rio de JaneiroSalzburg
Score1000
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km619
Coast distance1 km653 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Rio de Janeiro leads by 5 points.5
Rio de JaneiroSalzburg
Score5449
Restaurants within 2 km of centre804348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1623
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 9 points.9
Rio de JaneiroSalzburg
Score6960
Museums within 10 km11042
Museums within 2 km of centre5127
Share of museums within 2 km %4664
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Rio de Janeiro leads by 21 points.21
Rio de JaneiroSalzburg
Score5736
Drinking venues within 4 km818294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre509241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6282
Nightclubs within 4 km5016
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 35 points.35
Rio de JaneiroSalzburg
Score6227
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %57100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 11 points.11
Rio de JaneiroSalzburg
Score5948
Tourist attractions within 2 km3017
Park area within 2 km113 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Rio de Janeiro leads by 10 points.10
Rio de JaneiroSalzburg
Score5646
Notable places within 2 km9854
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 22 points.22
Rio de JaneiroSalzburg
Score8159
Price level global46.176.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 31 points.31
Rio de JaneiroSalzburg
Score8554
Monthly daytime high24 °C to 28.4 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 232 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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Rio de Janeiro
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. Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRio de JaneiroSalzburg
MadridMAD
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
1 h 5 m
€113-134
GIG · 12 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
LisbonLIS
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
SZG · 3 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

MeasureRio de JaneiroSalzburg
Official languagePortugueseGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCN60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation31 m424 m
Main airportRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRio de JaneiroSalzburg
City population6,211,223155,021
People per km²4,9302,360
Museums within 10 km7038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre2750
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.