San Marino vs Vienna for couples
San Marino and Vienna, in Austria, are about 563 km apart. Every figure below comes from the data behind our city pages: an estimated monthly cost for a couple, tax tier, annual climate, safety, healthcare, internet speed, language and residency rules. San Marino leads on cost, tax and safety; Vienna on getting by in English and residency rules.
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Side by side
Source: the datasets behind our city pages. Cost is our model estimate (a country-level cost index scaled for city size); tax tiers are assigned by hand from each country's top marginal income tax rate and overall tax reputation; temperature from the Open-Meteo archive (2019 to 2023 averages); rainfall from TerraClimate (1991 to 2020 normals); safety and healthcare are our own country-level estimates; internet from the Ookla Speedtest Global Index; English from the EF English Proficiency Index; residency from our hand-reviewed residency dataset (not legal advice); short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset.
Factor by factor
Cost of living
San Marino is cheaper: we estimate about €3,040 a month for a couple living centrally, against €3,826 in Vienna. That is €786 a month, or 21%, less.
Taxes
San Marino has the lighter tax load: San Marino is in our low to medium tax tier, Austria in our high tax tier.
Climate
Both average 12°C over the year. Vienna is drier, with about 600 mm of rain a year against 860 mm in San Marino (30% less).
Safety
San Marino is the safer pick: San Marino scores 85 out of 100 on safety, 10 points above Austria (75).
Healthcare
Close: San Marino scores 80 out of 100 on healthcare and Austria 79.
Internet
Close: about 90 Mbps median fixed download in San Marino and about 80 Mbps in Vienna.
Language
Main languages: Italian in San Marino; German in Vienna. English goes further in Vienna (good English) than in San Marino (limited English).
Residency and visas
Long-term residency is easier to obtain in Austria (possible, with conditions) than in San Marino (hard to obtain). The cheapest self-funded income route we track starts at about $12k a month in San Marino and $3,045 in Austria. For short visits, 93 of 198 passports can enter San Marino visa-free and 93 can enter Austria.
Which one fits a couple
If one of you puts cost (€3,040 against €3,826 a month), tax (low to medium tax against high tax) and safety (85 against 75 out of 100) first, San Marino comes out ahead. If the other cares more about getting by in English (good English against limited English) and residency rules (possible, with conditions against hard to obtain), Vienna does.
Climate can pull the two of you apart too: whoever minds rain will prefer Vienna (600 mm a year against 860 mm).
Size differs too: San Marino is a smaller city (under 250,000 people) and Vienna a large one (1 to 5 million people). San Marino is coastal; Vienna is inland.
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