Carinthia · Austria
Where to stay in Villach
Villach is a city in Carinthia, Austria, home to about 65,000 people. This guide covers 3 aparthotels in Villach, with about 71 rooms between them.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 3
- Nearest airport
- KLU39 km · Klagenfurt Airport
- Currency
- EUReuro
- Time zone
- Europe/Vienna
- Language
- German, Austrian Sign Language
About
About Villach
Villach is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region.
Its carnival is broadcast on public television throughout Austria. It's quite old, with roots back in Roman times (when the city was called Santicum). The city was heavily bombed in World War II, destroying many parts of the city.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Villach
See
- Museum der Stadt Villach
- Landskron Castle
- Falconry in Landskron Castle
- Parish Church of Villach-St. Jacob
- Museum of Doll Art
- Villacher Alpenstraße
- Relief von Kärnten
Do
- Kremlhoftheater Villach
- Cross Country Skiing
- Ice-Skating
- Villacher Kirchtag
- Jazz Over Villach
- Kanzianiberg
- Golfclub Schloss Finkenstein
- Faakersee
- ThermenResort Warmbad-Villach
- Maibachl
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Villach
3 places to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay | Rooms |
|---|---|
| Villach Gerbergasse aparthotel | 21 |
| Villach Hauptplatz aparthotel | 27 |
| Villach Oberer Kirchenplatz aparthotel | 23 |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
When to go
The best time to visit Villach
Villach has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 21 °C; August is the wettest, with about 175 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Villach: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Klagenfurt Airport (KLU), about 39 km from the city centre in a straight line; Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU, 65 km) and Trieste Airport (TRS, 92 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Villach is a railway hub for Austria, so trains converge from most other big cities including Vienna, Graz, Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Linz, Innsbruck and Bregenz. There are also direct connections to Munich, Zurich, Venice, Ljubljana, Zagreb and Belgrade. Several sleeper trains stop en route to destinations such as Florence, Milan, Munich, Rome, Stuttgart, and Zurich. However, Villach is a mid-point for these journeys, so departure times are after midnight. Optima Express runs a car-train between Villach and Edirne in western Turkey two or three times a week April-November, taking 33 hours.
Getting around
It's a quite small town, so it is easy to get around on foot. Taxis can be found near the railway station and in the centre of the city near Hauptplatz. Federal buses go to the surrounding area from the local Busbahnhof (busterminal, a few minutes away from the railway station). Local busline no.10 (operated by a company called Kowatsch) goes around the historic city centre. Getting around by car can be tiring since parking space is rare during weekdays and traffic jams at business hours are very common. During weekdays parking fees are charged in most areas around the centre of the city.
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KLU · Klagenfurt Airport
LJU · Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport
TRS · Trieste Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Villach
Drink
If you want to go out in the evening go for Hauptplatz and the numerous small avenues that start there.
Stay safe
Villach, like most Austrian cities, is safe to wander around. There will be occasional drunk people during festivities, but police visibility is evident. It is advisable to take precautionary measures when traveling, similarly to traveling to other European cities.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Villach
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 3 places
of 3 places
Questions
Villach: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Villach?
Villach has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 21 °C; August is the wettest, with about 175 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Villach?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Klagenfurt Airport (KLU), about 39 km from the city centre in a straight line; Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU, 65 km) and Trieste Airport (TRS, 92 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Villach?
euro (EUR).
Nearby
Destinations near Villach
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.