VacationSelector

Rome or Vienna?

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 nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

RomeVienna
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
RomeVienna
Score330
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km322
Coast distance24 km10,000 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 17 points.17
RomeVienna
Score6077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,2411,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1037
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 3 points.3
RomeVienna
Score8481
Museums within 10 km161192
Museums within 2 km of centre79110
Share of museums within 2 km %4957
Unesco sites within 50 km73
Nightlife. Rome and Vienna are level on 74.
RomeVienna
Score7474
Drinking venues within 4 km2,0221,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9121,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4556
Nightclubs within 4 km85108
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 38 points.38
RomeVienna
Score7032
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km172 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 17 points.17
RomeVienna
Score8669
Tourist attractions within 2 km12646
Park area within 2 km172 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 24 points.24
RomeVienna
Score9975
Notable places within 2 km1,125287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 9 points.9
RomeVienna
Score6859
Price level global64.976.9
Daily budget€155€160
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 10 points.10
RomeVienna
Score7161
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months31
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
2 h 45 m
€152-183
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€96-147
FCO · 23 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€270-340
FCO · 23 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 5 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
11 h 30 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
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

MeasureRomeVienna
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 m151 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeVienna
City population2,748,1092,028,289
People per km²2,1354,890
Museums within 10 km177152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km73
Distinct cuisines in the centre65113
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.