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Thessaloniki or Vienna?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Thessaloniki
59
match

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

Vienna
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

ThessalonikiVienna
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
ThessalonikiVienna
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km422
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 27 points.27
ThessalonikiVienna
Score5077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6401,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1537
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 32 points.32
ThessalonikiVienna
Score4981
Museums within 10 km34192
Museums within 2 km of centre22110
Share of museums within 2 km %6557
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 7 points.7
ThessalonikiVienna
Score6774
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4071,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8051,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5756
Nightclubs within 4 km61108
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 33 points.33
ThessalonikiVienna
Score6532
Protected land share 50 km %254
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km39 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 28 points.28
ThessalonikiVienna
Score4169
Tourist attractions within 2 km1646
Park area within 2 km39 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 19 points.19
ThessalonikiVienna
Score5675
Notable places within 2 km98287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 15 points.15
ThessalonikiVienna
Score7459
Price level global55.876.9
Daily budget€125€160
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 11 points.11
ThessalonikiVienna
Score7261
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 32.1 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 56 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months91
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3
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. Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromThessalonikiVienna
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€150-241
VIE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€155-263
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BerlinBER
2 h 25 m
€156-243
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€230-294
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
LarnacaLCA
2 h 0 m
€105-145
SKG · 14 km
3 h 5 m
€223-296
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
3 h 25 m
€283-311
1 stop
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

MeasureThessalonikiVienna
Official languageGreekGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m151 m
Main airportThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureThessalonikiVienna
City population309,6172,028,289
People per km²16,0424,890
Museums within 10 km31152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre45113
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.