VacationSelector

Rome or Salzburg?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

RomeSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
RomeSalzburg
Score330
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km39
Coast distance24 km653 km
Water distance24 km—
Places to eat. Rome leads by 11 points.11
RomeSalzburg
Score6049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,241348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1023
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 24 points.24
RomeSalzburg
Score8460
Museums within 10 km16142
Museums within 2 km of centre7927
Share of museums within 2 km %4964
Unesco sites within 50 km73
Nightlife. Rome leads by 38 points.38
RomeSalzburg
Score7436
Drinking venues within 4 km2,022294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre912241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4582
Nightclubs within 4 km8516
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 43 points.43
RomeSalzburg
Score7027
Protected land share 50 km %196
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km172 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 38 points.38
RomeSalzburg
Score8648
Tourist attractions within 2 km12617
Park area within 2 km172 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 53 points.53
RomeSalzburg
Score9946
Notable places within 2 km1,12554
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 9 points.9
RomeSalzburg
Score6859
Price level global64.976.9
Daily budget€155€160
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 17 points.17
RomeSalzburg
Score7154
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm47 mm to 168 mm
Dry months30
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeSalzburg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
1 h 55 m
€96-116
FCO · 23 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 15 m
€84-118
FCO · 23 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 112 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 5 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 45 m
€893-1016
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
HurghadaHRG
3 h 40 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
4 h 5 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 2026-08 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

MeasureRomeSalzburg
Official languageItalianGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation21 m424 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeSalzburg
City population2,748,109155,021
People per km²2,1352,360
Museums within 10 km17738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km73
Distinct cuisines in the centre6550
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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). 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.