Category: Austrian News

The police will once again be maintaining a heightened presence at Christmas markets in Vienna. Uniformed and plainclothes officers as well as specialized forces are on duty to ensure the safety of Advent market visitors. There are no indications of a specific threat. The Vienna Christmas markets 2025 At the start of this year’s Advent season, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) emphasized on Thursday that comprehensive security measures will be in place at the Christmas markets: “The mandate to all state police departments is clear: people should be able to…

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According to CNN, Vienna’s Christmas market on Rathausplatz is one of the best Christmas markets in the world. Program at the Christmas market on Rathausplatz The Christmas market in front of Vienna City Hall is listed among the world’s best Christmas markets in the ranking by US news channel CNN. The travel editorial team ranked the Vienna Christmas market, one of the oldest and most traditional, as the top destination for the Christmas season. The market opens on November 14. CNN names Vienna’s Christkindlmarkt at Rathausplatz one of the best…

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Vienna, November 8, 2025 – Motorists faced significant delays on Vienna’s Southeast Tangent (A23) on Saturday morning due to ongoing construction between Handelskai and the Prater junction. The congestion, particularly heavy in the direction of Graz, caused traffic to back up for several kilometers. What traffic experts had warned about earlier in the week materialized on Saturday: significant slowdowns as only one lane remained open in the construction zone. According to the Ö3 traffic service, delays reached up to 30 minutes during the morning hours. The closures are part of…

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The Ministry of Finance is warning of fraudulent SMS and WhatsApp messages being sent in the name of the tax authorities. This is part of a new wave of “smishing” attacks. The BMF advises: Do not click on any links, and do not enter any data. The Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) is warning of a new wave of fraudulent messages currently being spread via SMS and WhatsApp on behalf of Austrian tax authorities. Criminals are posing as FinanzOnline or other official bodies and attempting to obtain sensitive data using…

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Fire red will be burned into the memory of many Austrian road users. This is the color of the last “real” sticker—i.e., the highway vignette—for motorcycles and cars. The annual vignette for 2026 has been available for purchase since Wednesday, still in physical form for sticking on. From 2027, the highway vignette will only be available in digital form. The price has risen slightly compared to this year. The annual vignette for single-track motor vehicles now costs €42.70 (in 2025 it was €41.50), and the vignette for passenger cars costs…

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Even though the morning temperatures are slowly heralding the approach of winter, the coming days will be bright and beautiful. After fog in the morning, the sun will prevail in most parts of the country until the new week. Only a few clouds may interfere. Thursday is already looking sunny. Patches of fog will mostly clear up in the morning. According to the forecast by Geosphere Austria, the wind will pick up noticeably in the northeast and come from the southeast. A light foehn wind is expected on the northern…

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E-card fee to rise to €25 from November 2025. Not everyone will pay more: exceptions for those in need and pensioners explained. In November 2025, things will become more expensive again for many Austrians: the fee for the e-card will also rise sharply, from around €13.80 to a whopping €25. This corresponds to an increase of around 80 percent. According to the Chamber of Labor, the so-called service fee for 2026 will be collected on November 15—either directly from the employer or from the contribution-paying agency, such as the Public…

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So-called supermoons occur several times a year. In such cases, the full moon phase coincides with the moon being at its closest point to Earth in its orbit. On Wednesday, November 5, 2025, it will happen again, and what makes it special this time is that the full moon will be at its closest point to Earth this year, making it the largest in 2025. The supermoon of supermoons, so to speak. The moon will reach its full state over Austria on Wednesday at 2:19 p.m. At 11:16 p.m., it…

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Not only is the Austria-wide climate ticket becoming significantly more expensive, but most regional climate tickets and annual tickets in the federal states will also soon cost more. The price increases are particularly high in Upper Austria and Vienna. At the Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region (VOR) in Salzburg, Styria, and Vorarlberg, fares are rising by single-digit percentages, while in Carinthia, there will be no increase at all. The price of the nationwide Klimaticket Austria was increased from €1,095 to €1,300 in September and will rise again to €1,400 at the turn of…

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