VacationSelector

Salzburg or Split?

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

Your match

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Split
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

SalzburgSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
SalzburgSplit
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km987
Coast distance653 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Salzburg leads by 11 points.11
SalzburgSplit
Score4938
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2315
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 8 points.8
SalzburgSplit
Score6052
Museums within 10 km4218
Museums within 2 km of centre2716
Share of museums within 2 km %6489
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Split leads by 5 points.5
SalzburgSplit
Score3641
Drinking venues within 4 km294379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre241263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8269
Nightclubs within 4 km1623
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 11 points.11
SalzburgSplit
Score2738
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km39 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 22 points.22
SalzburgSplit
Score4826
Tourist attractions within 2 km179
Park area within 2 km39 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 4 points.4
SalzburgSplit
Score4642
Notable places within 2 km5443
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 21 points.21
SalzburgSplit
Score5980
Price level global76.948.5
Daily budget€160€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 15 points.15
SalzburgSplit
Score5469
Monthly daytime high3.4 °C to 24.9 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 168 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromSalzburgSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
2 h 5 m
€108-177
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 5 m
€183-262
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 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

MeasureSalzburgSplit
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation424 m0 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgSplit
City population155,021160,577
People per km²2,360
Museums within 10 km3811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre5031
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Salzburg or Split somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.