VacationSelector

Salzburg or Sydney?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

SalzburgSydney
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
SalzburgSydney
Score060
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km9160
Coast distance653 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 29 points.29
SalzburgSydney
Score4978
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3482,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2331
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 9 points.9
SalzburgSydney
Score6051
Museums within 10 km4244
Museums within 2 km of centre2720
Share of museums within 2 km %6445
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 39 points.39
SalzburgSydney
Score3675
Drinking venues within 4 km2942,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2411,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8269
Nightclubs within 4 km16120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 31 points.31
SalzburgSydney
Score2758
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km39 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 16 points.16
SalzburgSydney
Score4864
Tourist attractions within 2 km1737
Park area within 2 km39 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 14 points.14
SalzburgSydney
Score4660
Notable places within 2 km54123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 9 points.9
SalzburgSydney
Score5950
Price level global76.990.2
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 27 points.27
SalzburgSydney
Score5481
Monthly daytime high3.4 °C to 24.9 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 168 mm55 mm to 121 mm
Dry months00
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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSalzburgSydney
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
10 h 30 m
€548-574
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
12 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
8 h 5 m
€498-549
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
DohaDOH
5 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 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

MeasureSalzburgSydney
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation424 m6 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgSydney
City population155,0215,450,496
People per km²2,360449
Museums within 10 km3838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre5079
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.