How many days do you need in Vienna?
Three days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Vienna.
Here is what each day holds. Every stop below carries its time, and every gap says how to get to the next stop, with the walk or drive time wherever both stops are mapped.
Vienna · 3 days Austria
Best time: April to June and September to October for mild weather and open terraces.
The imperial centreDay 1
⛪9:00 AMSt. Stephen's Cathedral
The Gothic spine of the old city, with a patterned tile roof and catacombs holding Habsburg organs in copper urns.
🚶 ~11 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.4 mi
📍12:30 PMHofburg
The winter palace: imperial apartments, the silver collection, and a museum to Empress Elisabeth that is more interesting than it sounds.
🚶 ~8 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.3 mi
🖼️6:00 PMStanding room at the State Opera
Tickets go on sale eighty minutes before curtain for a few euros. Queue early, bring a scarf to mark your rail spot, as the regulars do.
Art and the marketDay 2
🖼️10:00 AMKunsthistorisches Museum
The Habsburg collection: the largest Bruegel holding in the world, and a staircase Klimt painted the spandrels of.
🚶 ~10 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.4 mi
📍2:00 PMNaschmarkt
A kilometre of food stalls and lunch counters, with a big flea market at the far end on Saturdays.
🚶 ~27 min · 🚗 ~3 min · 1.0 mi
📍4:30 PMBelvedere
Two Baroque palaces and a formal garden, holding Klimt's The Kiss. Go late in the day when the coach groups have gone.
Schönbrunn and the PraterDay 3
🏰9:00 AMSchönbrunn Palace
The summer palace of 1,441 rooms, with gardens climbing to a hilltop colonnade and the oldest zoo in the world in the grounds.
🚗 ~9 min · 2.5 mi
🖼️2:00 PMMuseumsQuartier
Modern art in converted imperial stables, with courtyards full of coloured benches that the whole city sits on in summer.
🚶 ~52 min · 🚗 ~7 min · 1.9 mi
📍6:00 PMPrater and the Riesenrad
A public park with a fairground at one end, and an 1897 ferris wheel of wooden cabins turning very slowly over the city.
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