Vienna and Salzburg are both in Austria but climatically could hardly be more different: Vienna in the east has a continental climate with around 1900 sunshine hours and only 600 mm of annual precipitation, while Salzburg at the Alpine edge receives around 1200 mm – nearly twice as much rain and snow. Anyone who lives in Vienna and visits Salzburg notices the difference immediately.
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The comparison tool above stacks Vienna and Salzburg into the same time window. Pick a month from last year, a quarter from 2020, or a full summer, and both cities are scored on the same four metrics: temperature, sunshine, precipitation, and wind. Aggregation switches between day, week, and month depending on how granular you want the trace.
A side-by-side comparison surfaces differences that a single-city view hides. If Vienna and Salzburg sit in the same climate region, the gaps are small but both cities react similarly to weather patterns. If they sit further apart, coast versus inland or north versus south, regional effects show up directly in the numbers.
Both cities draw from the same dataset: the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis archive, retrieved via the Open-Meteo archive API. Reanalysis means every available satellite and surface measurement is reconciled retrospectively and placed on a consistent grid. Values for Vienna and Salzburg are therefore directly comparable whether you look at 1970 or 2025.
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