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3 days in Vienna

A complete 3-day Vienna itinerary with 14 places, arranged so each stop is open when you arrive and the walking between them stays sensible.

Days
3
Places
14
Time in transit
228 min
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Why the stops are in this order

Most itineraries you find online are a list of places worth seeing, left in whatever order the writer thought of them. That is the part that falls apart on the day: you arrive somewhere at 17:40 and it closed at 17:00, or you cross the city twice because two neighbouring sights sat on different days.

This plan is sequenced instead of listed. Every stop below is checked against the opening hours of the place itself, and the gaps between them are real door-to-door travel times, not straight-line distance on a map. The visiting windows shown are what is actually achievable in a day.

Across all 3 days this route spends 228 minutes in transit — that number is the point. Reordering the same 14 places carelessly can easily double it, and that time comes straight out of your trip.

Day 1

09:00–21:30 · 4 places · 91 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 7 min by public transport

    Belvedere Palace

    09:07–11:07 2 hr

  3. Lunch

    12:00–12:30 30 min

  4. Hofburg

    12:30–14:30 2 hr

  5. 43 min by public transport

    Schönbrunn Palace

    15:13–17:13 2 hr

  6. 41 min by public transport

    St. Stephen's Cathedral

    17:54–19:09 1 hr 15 min

Day 2

09:00–21:30 · 5 places · 57 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 27 min by public transport

    Museum of Natural History Vienna

    09:27–11:27 2 hr

  3. Lunch

    12:00–12:30 30 min

  4. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

    12:30–14:30 2 hr

  5. 9 min by public transport

    Albertina

    14:39–16:39 2 hr

  6. 11 min walk

    Neue Burg - Teil der Wiener Hofburg

    16:50–17:50 1 hr

  7. 10 min walk

    MuseumsQuartier Wien

    18:00–21:00 3 hr

Day 3

09:00–21:30 · 5 places · 80 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 20 min by public transport

    Hundertwasser House

    09:20–10:05 45 min

  3. 19 min by public transport

    Viennese Giant Ferris Wheel

    10:24–11:24 1 hr

  4. Lunch

    12:00–12:30 30 min

  5. Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna

    12:30–14:30 2 hr

  6. 13 min walk

    Burggarten

    14:43–16:13 1 hr 30 min

  7. 28 min by public transport

    Prater

    16:41–18:41 2 hr

Make it your trip

The schedule above is built for a generic 3-day visit. Open it in the planner to set your own dates — the timings recalculate against the opening hours for those specific days, which matters more than it sounds when a museum closes on Mondays. You can drag stops between days, swap anything you are not interested in, and the rest of the day re-sequences around the change.

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