Month: December 2024

While some regions will be spoiled by sunshine, others can expect fog and high fog. The forecasts for the coming days provide important clues as to what to expect in the first week of the new year. Sunshine and patches of fogThe current weather conditions will remain largely stable until the middle of the week. Especially in regions such as the Rhine Valley (Vorarlberg) and the Innviertel (Upper Austria), fog and high fog patches will dominate the picture. This weather situation also increasingly affects a strip stretching from the Weinviertel…

Whether it’s champagne, lucky charms, or groceries, there’s often a lot to buy on New Year’s Eve. In Vienna, most stores will be open until the evening for last-minute shopping on 31 December 2024. Here is an overview of all supermarket, drugstore, and shopping center opening hours on New Year’s Eve in Vienna. Program for the Vienna New Year’s Eve TrailOn Tuesday, 31 December 2024, preparations for New Year’s Eve in Vienna will again ensure a big store rush. Despite shortened opening hours, many stores and shopping centers in Vienna…

If Geosphere Austria’s forecast is correct, we can look forward to calm, high-pressure weather and glorious sunshine at the end of the year. Austria should only prepare for rainfall again after the New Year. At the start of the new week, fog and high fog patches are often very persistent in the Rhine Valley and the northern Alpine foothills. In all other areas, the fog over the lowlands will often clear during the morning, and the weather will be mostly bright and sunny. The wind will generally be light, with…

Vienna – Giving lucky charms is just as much a part of New Year’s Eve as a bottle of sparkling wine or enjoying unique culinary specialties. On average, Austrians will spend 126 euros per head on New Year’s Eve celebrations this year. “An important sales boost for domestic retailers,” says Rainer Will, Managing Director of the Austrian Retail Association, commenting on the results of the market researchers from Reppublika. Food and beverage retailers are the main beneficiaries of the turnover of around 600 million euros, but other sectors, such as…