VacationSelector

Sydney or Vienna?

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

Your match

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

SydneyVienna
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
SydneyVienna
Score600
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km16022
Coast distance7 km10,000 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 1 points.1
SydneyVienna
Score7877
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,2051,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3137
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 30 points.30
SydneyVienna
Score5181
Museums within 10 km44192
Museums within 2 km of centre20110
Share of museums within 2 km %4557
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 1 points.1
SydneyVienna
Score7574
Drinking venues within 4 km2,0501,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,4051,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6956
Nightclubs within 4 km120108
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 26 points.26
SydneyVienna
Score5832
Protected land share 50 km %104
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km115 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 5 points.5
SydneyVienna
Score6469
Tourist attractions within 2 km3746
Park area within 2 km115 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 15 points.15
SydneyVienna
Score6075
Notable places within 2 km123287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 9 points.9
SydneyVienna
Score5059
Price level global90.276.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 20 points.20
SydneyVienna
Score8161
Monthly daytime high17.7 °C to 27.7 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 121 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSydneyVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 30 m
€548-574
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
8 h 5 m
€498-549
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
DohaDOH
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€84-160
VIE · 18 km
TokyoHND, NRT
9 h 50 m
€671
SYD · 9 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
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

MeasureSydneyVienna
Official languageEnglishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation6 m151 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSydneyVienna
City population5,450,4962,028,289
People per km²4494,890
Museums within 10 km38152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre79113
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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.