VacationSelector

Rio de Janeiro or Vienna?

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.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

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 JaneiroVienna
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 100 points.100
Rio de JaneiroVienna
Score1000
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km6122
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 23 points.23
Rio de JaneiroVienna
Score5477
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8041,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1637
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 12 points.12
Rio de JaneiroVienna
Score6981
Museums within 10 km110192
Museums within 2 km of centre51110
Share of museums within 2 km %4657
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 17 points.17
Rio de JaneiroVienna
Score5774
Drinking venues within 4 km8181,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5091,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6256
Nightclubs within 4 km50108
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 30 points.30
Rio de JaneiroVienna
Score6232
Protected land share 50 km %214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %57100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 10 points.10
Rio de JaneiroVienna
Score5969
Tourist attractions within 2 km3046
Park area within 2 km113 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 19 points.19
Rio de JaneiroVienna
Score5675
Notable places within 2 km98287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 22 points.22
Rio de JaneiroVienna
Score8159
Price level global46.176.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 24 points.24
Rio de JaneiroVienna
Score8561
Monthly daytime high24 °C to 28.4 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 232 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Rio de Janeiro
No sunshine record
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. Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRio de JaneiroVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€84-160
VIE · 18 km
MadridMAD
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€152-183
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
LisbonLIS
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 12 km
3 h 25 m
€222-295
1 stop
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 2026-08 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

MeasureRio de JaneiroVienna
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 m151 m
Main airportRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRio de JaneiroVienna
City population6,211,2232,028,289
People per km²4,9304,890
Museums within 10 km70152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre27113
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.