Austria
13 ranked
hotels in Vienna
20 MICHELIN Keys · 0 Forbes Five Star · 1 World's 50 Best placings
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Ringstrasse grandeur, Innere Stadt palaces, Spittelberg's quieter rooms
Vienna has 13 hotels ranked in the finehotels.world index. Hotel Sacher Wien leads on prestige score at 7.24 out of 10, followed by The Amauris Vienna and Hotel Imperial. Of those, 13 hold MICHELIN Keys, 1 have placed in The World's 50 Best Hotels, 1 are rated by La Liste.
Vienna's 13 ranked hotels all hold MICHELIN Keys, one at three Keys and five at two, and the buildings map the city's nineteenth century ambitions. Hotel Imperial began as the Wurttemberg palace on the Karntner Ring; Hotel Sacher has stood behind the State Opera since 1876; Park Hyatt Vienna occupies a former bank on Am Hof, its pool sunk into the old vault.
Rosewood Vienna looks onto Petersplatz, The Amauris sits near the Musikverein, Hotel Sans Souci faces the MuseumsQuartier, and Altstadt Vienna keeps a set of individually decorated rooms in the low-rise Spittelberg quarter.
| Hotel | Prestige | Distinctions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hotel Sacher Wien3 Keys · 50 Best · 152 rooms | 7.24 | 3 MICHELIN Keys; World's 50 Best No. 49 in 2025 |
| 2 | The Amauris Vienna2 Keys · La Liste · 62 rooms | 6.05 | 2 MICHELIN Keys; La Liste 97.5 |
| 3 | Hotel Imperial2 Keys · 138 rooms | 5.99 | 2 MICHELIN Keys |
| 4 | Hotel Sans Souci, Vienna2 Keys · 73 rooms | 5.99 | 2 MICHELIN Keys |
| 5 | Park Hyatt Vienna2 Keys · 146 rooms | 5.99 | 2 MICHELIN Keys |
| 6 | Rosewood Vienna2 Keys · 104 rooms | 5.99 | 2 MICHELIN Keys |
| 7 | Altstadt Vienna1 Key · 62 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 8 | Buxbaum Boutique Hotel1 Key · 24 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 9 | Hotel Josefine1 Key · 49 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 10 | Hotel MOTTO, Vienna1 Key · 91 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 11 | Hyatt Regency Vienna1 Key · 303 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 12 | The Guesthouse Vienna1 Key · 39 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 13 | The Ritz-Carlton, Vienna1 Key · 202 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
Prestige score is shown out of 10. Sources: MICHELIN Guide hotel selection, Forbes Travel Guide 2026 Star Awards, The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2023 to 2025, La Liste Top 1000 Hotels.
Almost everything clusters inside or just beyond the Ringstrasse, in the first district around the Opera, Am Hof and Petersplatz, where walking to the Musikverein or the Kunsthistorisches takes minutes; Spittelberg and Neubau, on the far side of the MuseumsQuartier, are calmer and closer to the cafes and small galleries.
The ball and concert season from January to March and the Advent weeks in December fill the city despite the cold; May, June and September are the mildest, and late summer, when the Staatsoper and much of the concert calendar pause, is the quietest stretch.
By prestige score, the three highest ranked hotels in Vienna are Hotel Sacher Wien, The Amauris Vienna, Hotel Imperial. The score is a composite of MICHELIN Keys, Forbes Travel Guide Five Star ratings, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025, and La Liste's hotel ratings. finehotels.world tracks 13 award holding hotels in Vienna in total.
Vienna has 13 hotels holding MICHELIN Keys in this index, of which 1 hold the top rating of three Keys and 5 hold two Keys.
Each hotel is scored on a fixed formula built only from award facts, then shown on a scale of 5.00 to 10.00. MICHELIN Keys carry the most weight, a Forbes Travel Guide Five Star rating adds a flat six points, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025 are weighted equally, and a La Liste rating moves the total slightly. Nothing a hotel supplies about itself enters the score, and the full formula is published on the methodology page so any figure in the table can be reproduced from the awards beside it.
The ball and concert season from January to March and the Advent weeks in December fill the city despite the cold; May, June and September are the mildest, and late summer, when the Staatsoper and much of the concert calendar pause, is the quietest stretch.
Almost everything clusters inside or just beyond the Ringstrasse, in the first district around the Opera, Am Hof and Petersplatz, where walking to the Musikverein or the Kunsthistorisches takes minutes; Spittelberg and Neubau, on the far side of the MuseumsQuartier, are calmer and closer to the cafes and small galleries.