Austria

Traveling

Entry requirements

Passport and visa service

Visa information of the Austrian Foreign Ministry

Diplomatic representations

Organizing your trip

Means of transport recommended in town

Maps of urban networks

Maporama
UT Library on line
Mapblast
Mappy
ViaMichelin

Means of transport recommended in the rest of the country

Rail companies

Airlines

Traveling by yourself

Recommendation

Since January 1st, 1997, it is compulsory to stick a road tax disc on the windscreen that you can buy at the border in order to be able to drive on highways. It is therefore advised to get it either when crossing the border or at the first highway exit. The road police have no mercy for the offenders and strongly fine them. The car or some of its contents (the car stereo for example) can be retained as a guarantee in case you ask for a deferred payment.

Road maps

Find an itinerary

Visiting

Different forms of tourism

Historical

-Vienna and its Operas
-The city of Salzburg is famous for its festival and as a place where numerous artists and writers lived
-The numerous ski resorts in the Austrian Alps.

Tourism organizations

Living conditions

Health and safety

For further information on sanitary conditions

For further information on safety conditions

Emergency numbers

Time difference and climate

Time and time difference

It is %T:%M %A in Vienna (GMT+1 in winter, GMT+2 in summer)

Summer time period

Summer time from March to October.

Map of the time zone

Type of climate

For further information

Average annual temperatures and rainfall

Eating

Culinary specialties

The Viennese cooking is strongly influenced by Czech, Hungarian, and even Baltic cookery. There is a wide range of specialities with various flavours. The various provinces managed to preserve their culinary patrimony. This way, regional specialities can be found in all hotels and restaurants.
Austrian gastronomy is famous for its cakes (Sacher Torte), its excellent cooked pork meats and its famous white wines (côteaux of Lower Austria, Styria and Burgenland).

Drinks

Dietary taboos

Paying

Domestic currency

Euro

ISO Code

EUR

To obtain domestic currency

From 01/01/2002, the currency in circulation is the euro. There are some notes of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 euros. The nominal values of the coins are the following : 1 cent (or 1/100 of euro), 2 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents, 1 euro and 2 euros.

Possible means of payment

Speaking

Official language

German

Other languages spoken

English and French are spoken in large cities. In Austria, it is common to meet ethnic minorities who have kept their mother tongue i.e. Czechs and Slovaks in Vienna, Hungarians and Croatians in the region of Burgenland and Slovenians in the south of Carinthia.

Business language

German and English.

Getting some knowledge

Free translation tools

Babel Fish - Free English-German-English translator of texts and web pages
Systran - Free English-German-English translator of texts and web pages
Eurodicautom - The European Union Dictionary (12 languages available)
Leo - German-English-German dictionary with over 300,000 entries

Useful resources

To find an accommodation

To find an apartment

To find a job

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