VacationSelector

Vienna or York?

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

Your match

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

ViennaYork
Beaches & swimming. Vienna and York are level on 0.
ViennaYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km222
Coast distance10,000 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 23 points.23
ViennaYork
Score7754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,617361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3731
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 35 points.35
ViennaYork
Score8146
Museums within 10 km19218
Museums within 2 km of centre11016
Share of museums within 2 km %5789
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 31 points.31
ViennaYork
Score7443
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,089353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5678
Nightclubs within 4 km10814
Nature & day trips. York leads by 1 points.1
ViennaYork
Score3233
Protected land share 50 km %417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km93 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 26 points.26
ViennaYork
Score6943
Tourist attractions within 2 km4613
Park area within 2 km93 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 36 points.36
ViennaYork
Score7539
Notable places within 2 km28737
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 5 points.5
ViennaYork
Score5954
Price level global76.984.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 5 points.5
ViennaYork
Score6156
Monthly daytime high3.3 °C to 26.8 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 80 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months11
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromViennaYork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
€123-211
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
1 h 40 m
€101-156
VIE · 18 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AgadirAGA
4 h 10 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 50 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
CancunCUN
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureViennaYork
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation151 m25 m
Main airportVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureViennaYork
City population2,028,289208,400
People per km²4,890766
Museums within 10 km15224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre11354

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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.