Rotterdam or Vienna?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.
Wins on nightlife 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.
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
| Rotterdam | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 37 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 22 | 22 |
| Coast distance | 24 km | 10,000 km |
| Water distance | 24 km | — |
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 5 points.5
| Rotterdam | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 72 | 77 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 862 | 1,617 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 46 | 37 |
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 21 points.21
| Rotterdam | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 60 | 81 |
| Museums within 10 km | 41 | 192 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 20 | 110 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 49 | 57 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 5 | 3 |
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 25 points.25
| Rotterdam | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 49 | 74 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 542 | 1,948 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 378 | 1,089 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 70 | 56 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 40 | 108 |
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 10 points.10
| Rotterdam | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 42 | 32 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 10 | 4 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 79 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 61 hectares | 93 hectares |
Good for families. Vienna leads by 7 points.7
| Rotterdam | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 62 | 69 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 27 | 46 |
| Park area within 2 km | 61 hectares | 93 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 8 | 4 |
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 24 points.24
| Rotterdam | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 51 | 75 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 74 | 287 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Vienna leads by 1 points.1
| Rotterdam | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 58 | 59 |
| Price level global | 79.2 | 76.9 |
| Daily budget | €181 | €160 |
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 5 points.5
| Rotterdam | Vienna | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 56 | 61 |
| Monthly daytime high | 6.2 °C to 22.1 °C | 3.3 °C to 26.8 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 42 mm to 85 mm | 38 mm to 80 mm |
| Dry months | 0 | 1 |
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).
Getting there
| Flying from | Rotterdam | Vienna |
|---|---|---|
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 1 h 10 m €178-300 AMS · 47 km | 1 h 55 m €112-162 VIE · 18 km |
| MadridMAD | 2 h 25 m €160-183 AMS · 47 km | 2 h 45 m €152-183 1 stop VIE · 18 km |
| CopenhagenCPH | 1 h 25 m €171-212 1 stop AMS · 47 km | 1 h 40 m €109-136 VIE · 18 km |
| DubaiDXB, DWC | 6 h 45 m €318-346 1 stop AMS · 47 km | 5 h 40 m €292-307 VIE · 18 km |
| DublinDUB | 1 h 35 m €69-96 AMS · 47 km | 2 h 40 m no fares VIE · 18 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 7 h 35 m €512-556 1 stop AMS · 47 km | 8 h 40 m €736-786 1 stop VIE · 18 km |
| StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST | 2 h 0 m €156-208 AMS · 47 km | 2 h 10 m €111-165 VIE · 18 km |
| ManchesterMAN | 1 h 15 m €145-187 AMS · 47 km | 2 h 20 m no fares VIE · 18 km |
| ShanghaiPVG, SHA | 11 h 10 m no fares AMS · 47 km | 10 h 40 m no fares VIE · 18 km |
| CancunCUN | 10 h 25 m no fares AMS · 47 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
| Measure | Rotterdam | Vienna |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Dutch | German, Austrian Sign Language |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CF230 V, 50 Hz | CF230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 or 911 | 112 |
| Elevation | 10 m | 151 m |
| Main airport | Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations | Vienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 16 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Rotterdam | Vienna |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 664,311 | 2,028,289 |
| People per km² | 2,080 | 4,890 |
| Museums within 10 km | 40 | 152 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 5 | 3 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 77 | 113 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | None | – |
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