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Vienna or Warsaw?

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, 1 point apart

Vienna
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money 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.

ViennaWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Vienna and Warsaw are level on 0.
ViennaWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2226
Coast distance10,000 km238 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 5 points.5
ViennaWarsaw
Score7772
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6171,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3734
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 18 points.18
ViennaWarsaw
Score8163
Museums within 10 km192107
Museums within 2 km of centre11060
Share of museums within 2 km %5756
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 12 points.12
ViennaWarsaw
Score7462
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9481,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,089648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5664
Nightclubs within 4 km108104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 23 points.23
ViennaWarsaw
Score3255
Protected land share 50 km %427
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km93 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 1 points.1
ViennaWarsaw
Score6970
Tourist attractions within 2 km4642
Park area within 2 km93 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 1 points.1
ViennaWarsaw
Score7576
Notable places within 2 km287299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 20 points.20
ViennaWarsaw
Score5979
Price level global76.949
Daily budget€160€133
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 2 points.2
ViennaWarsaw
Score6159
Monthly daytime high3.3 °C to 26.8 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 80 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months16
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromViennaWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AntalyaAYT
2 h 40 m
€135-192
VIE · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
CancunCUN
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureViennaWarsaw
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguagePolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation151 m118 m
Main airportVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureViennaWarsaw
City population2,028,2891,862,402
People per km²4,8903,601
Museums within 10 km152117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre11376

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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. 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.