VacationSelector

Salzburg or Vancouver?

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.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

SalzburgVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
SalzburgVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km9109
Coast distance653 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 25 points.25
SalzburgVancouver
Score4974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3481,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2335
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 26 points.26
SalzburgVancouver
Score6034
Museums within 10 km4227
Museums within 2 km of centre2715
Share of museums within 2 km %6456
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 21 points.21
SalzburgVancouver
Score3657
Drinking venues within 4 km294848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre241602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8271
Nightclubs within 4 km1644
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 50 points.50
SalzburgVancouver
Score2777
Protected land share 50 km %619
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km39 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 5 points.5
SalzburgVancouver
Score4853
Tourist attractions within 2 km1715
Park area within 2 km39 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 2 points.2
SalzburgVancouver
Score4648
Notable places within 2 km5463
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 5 points.5
SalzburgVancouver
Score5954
Price level global76.984
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Salzburg leads by 1 points.1
SalzburgVancouver
Score5453
Monthly daytime high3.4 °C to 24.9 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 168 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSalzburgVancouver
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
12 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
14 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
YVR · 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

MeasureSalzburgVancouver
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation424 m2 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgVancouver
City population155,021662,248
People per km²2,3605,759
Museums within 10 km3826
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre5085
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.