According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Austria is April to June and August to October. Plan 7–10 days.
Best months for Austria
- Best months
- April to June and August to October
- How long to stay
- 7–10 days
- Continent
- Europe
What Austria is best for
Scenic alpine road trips, marked mountain hikes, and imperial palaces from Salzkammergut to Vienna.
- Prices
- €€€ · more expensive than in Slovakia
Weather in Austria by month
Monthly averages around Vienna; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about −2 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| February | about 0 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| March | about 4 °C | some rain (45 mm) |
| April best | about 10 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| May best | about 14 °C | some rain (81 mm) |
| June best | about 19 °C | some rain (90 mm) |
| July | about 21 °C | some rain (84 mm) |
| August best | about 20 °C | some rain (84 mm) |
| September best | about 15 °C | some rain (78 mm) |
| October best | about 10 °C | some rain (51 mm) |
| November | about 4 °C | some rain (45 mm) |
| December | about 0 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Austria
- Capital
- Vienna
- Language
- German
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Time
- UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +43
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
Our posts about Austria
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