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Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Victoria Falls 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 Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Vienna for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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. Victoria Falls 7, Vienna 27: Vienna leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Victoria Falls 24, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Victoria Falls 12, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 77 points.
Nightlife. Victoria Falls 8, Vienna 50: Vienna leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Victoria Falls 94, Vienna 62: Victoria Falls leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Victoria Falls 22, Vienna 74: Vienna leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Victoria Falls 38, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 39 points.
Getting around. Victoria Falls 45, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Victoria Falls 18, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Victoria Falls 32, Vienna 44: Vienna leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Victoria Falls 10, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 86 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Victoria Falls 34, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Victoria Falls and Vienna.

Your match

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

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Vienna
Best match
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.

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Victoria FallsVienna

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureVictoria FallsVienna
Official languageEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, BarweGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyZimbabwe Gold (ZWG)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation961 m151 m
Main airportVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureVictoria FallsVienna
City population33,0602,028,289
People per km²-4,890
Museums within 10 km2152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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). 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. 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.