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Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Taipei or Vienna?

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 Taipei for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose Vienna for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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. Taipei 40, Vienna 27: Taipei leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Taipei 88, Vienna 68: Taipei leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Taipei 68, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Taipei 58, Vienna 50: Taipei leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Taipei 78, Vienna 62: Taipei leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Taipei 76, Vienna 74: Taipei leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Taipei 72, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Taipei 86, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Taipei 70, Vienna 62: Taipei leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Taipei 66, Vienna 44: Taipei leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Taipei 55, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Taipei 80, Vienna 58: Taipei leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Taipei and Vienna.

Your match

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

Taipei
Best match
70match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Vienna
66match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Taipei in July

35 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
288 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Taipei 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Taipei: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sungshan / Taipei (3.5 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTaipeiVienna
Official languageTaiwanese Sign Language, Amis, Taiwanese Hokkien, Rukai, Bunun, Kanakanavu, Standard Taiwanese Mandarin, Paiwan, Yami, Atayal, Saaroa, Kavalan, Tsou, Seediq, Puyuma, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Taiwanese Hakka, Truku, Matsu dialect, Kinmen dialect, Wuqiu dialectGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyNew Taiwan Dollar (TWD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number110 or 112 or 119112
Elevation10 m151 m
Main airportTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centreVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureTaipeiVienna
City population2,429,4292,028,289
People per km²8,9384,890
Museums within 10 km69152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (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. 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.