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The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Salzburg or St. Pete Beach?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Salzburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’s own page.

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Salzburg 35, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Salzburg 45, St. Pete Beach 40: Salzburg leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Salzburg 72, St. Pete Beach 18: Salzburg leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Salzburg 25, St. Pete Beach 28: St. Pete Beach leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salzburg 86, St. Pete Beach 57: Salzburg leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Salzburg 80, St. Pete Beach 58: Salzburg leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Salzburg 65, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Salzburg 72, St. Pete Beach 30: Salzburg leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Salzburg 48, St. Pete Beach 20: Salzburg leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Salzburg and St. Pete Beach are level on 32.
Live music & performing arts. Salzburg 80, St. Pete Beach 20: Salzburg leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salzburg 55, St. Pete Beach 42: Salzburg leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salzburg and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

St. Pete Beach has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSalzburgSt. Pete Beach
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign Language-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation424 m2 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgSt. Pete Beach
City population155,0218,879
People per km²2,360173
Museums within 10 km382
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.