Austria travel tips

Internet speed in Austria

Median speeds from Ookla's Speedtest Global Index, June 2026 — what a rental's line and your phone actually get, not what the listing says.

Home broadband152 Mbpsmedian download in Vienna0world median 130300+Fast — Several people on calls at once, large uploads, 4K37 Mbps upload · 9 ms latency
Mobile data144 Mbpsmedian download in Vienna0world median 109300+23 Mbps upload · 15 ms latency

By city

under 30 basic · fair · 100+ good · 150+ fast — the tick is the world median.

PlaceHome broadbandMobile dataWork from it?
Viennameasured in Vienna152 MbpsFast · 37 up · 9 ms144 MbpsGood · 23 up · 15 msNot at the median
Austria as a wholeOokla publishes no separate figure for Salzburg, Hallstatt, Innsbruck, Wachau Valley; the national median stands for them.107 MbpsGood · 30 up · 11 ms114 MbpsGood · 18 up · 20 msNot at the median

A median is the middle of every test run in the place that quarter: half the lines are faster, half slower. Cities usually beat the national number; islands and hill towns usually do not. "Work from it" is this site's own line — 150 Mbps down, 50 up, under 30 ms — for a household on calls all day; one person needs far less.

The guides in Austria

aerial photography of city buildingsViennaAustriaImperial palaces, coffee houses, and world-class musicSalzburg below the Hohensalzburg fortress at golden hourSalzburgAustriaMozart, a fortress on a rock, and the Alps starting at the end of the streethouses near body of water and mountain during daytimeHallstattAustriaA village of a few hundred people on a lake under a salt mountain, and the most photographed view in Austriaview of buildingsInnsbruckAustriaA Habsburg city with ski runs above the rooftops and a cable car from the middle of town to the Alpsgreen grass field near lake under blue sky during daytimeWachau ValleyAustriaForty kilometres of terraced Danube between two abbeys, with the best white wine in Austria on the slopesThe painted house fronts along Kitzbühel’s medieval main streetKitzbühelAustriaA walled medieval town that happens to have a ski resort attached, and the Hahnenkamm downhill every January, which is the most frightening race in the sporta snow covered mountain with a ski lift in the distanceSt. Anton am ArlbergAustriaThe birthplace of the modern ski school, at the centre of the biggest linked area in Austria, with a reputation for hard skiing and harder drinking that it has entirely earnedAn Alpine village of wooden chalets under the Paznaun ridgesIschglAustriaA high, snow-sure resort that links across the border into Switzerland for duty-free shopping, and puts on a stadium concert on the mountain twice a seasonThe sun setting on the ski slopes above SöldenSöldenAustriaTwo glaciers, the first World Cup race of every season, and a road that climbs to 2,800 metres — the highest paved pass in Austria — above the villagewhite and brown concrete building near body of water during daytimeZell am SeeAustriaA lakeside town with a glacier twenty minutes away, which means you can swim and ski in the same week and the resort does not shut for the summera car driving down a winding road in the mountainsMayrhofenAustriaA valley town at the end of the Zillertal with the steepest piste in Austria dropping into it, a music festival on the snow, and a working village underneath all of itThe waterfall frozen where it drops through the middle of Bad GasteinBad GasteinAustriaA belle époque spa town built in tiers down a gorge with a waterfall through the middle of it, half restored and half magnificently derelict, with radon thermal baths underneath

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