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Stumm & Laut — Silent Films with Live Music
Don't Miss10th · Favoriten

Stumm & Laut — Silent Films with Live Music

When
20 August 2026 – 22 August 2026
Where
10th · Favoriten

Silent films with live electronic music accompaniment at an open-air cinema in the 11th. Three nights, free admission. The live score isn't a restoration or a classical pairing — it's real-time improvisation happening as the film plays, which shifts how you watch. The musicians respond to what's on screen, and the screen responds to the rhythm they're building. It's a different kind of cinema experience.

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Vinyl & Music Summer Nights — Ottakringer Brauerei, August 21–22
Don't Miss16th · Ottakring

Vinyl & Music Summer Nights — Ottakringer Brauerei, August 21–22

When
21 August 2026 – 22 August 2026
Where
16th · Ottakring

Vinyl & Music Summer Nights returns to the Ottakringer Brauerei on August 21–22, 16:00–22:00. Free entry. The courtyard of Vienna's last family-owned independent brewery — operating since 1837 — becomes a summer evening market: records to dig through, drinks, food, and music. The format is the festival's relaxed summer edition, the kind of event that becomes a late-August ritual for people who know the space. Ottakringer in the 16th district is one of Vienna's most characterful event venues: a working industrial brewery with a courtyard that holds a crowd without feeling like a festival. Presented by ROCK ANTENNE Österreich. Tom Sattler, a Rolling Stones collector and expert, will have exclusive special editions of the new Stones album Foreign Tongues in stock. The sound is Italo — Zucchero, Gianna Nannini, Måneskin — and the brewery's new Bier Spritz (beer and sparkling wine) is the drink of the evening.

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Wieninger.next Pop-Up Heuriger — Stammersdorf, the 21st
Out & About21st · Floridsdorf

Wieninger.next Pop-Up Heuriger — Stammersdorf, the 21st

When
23 August 2026
Where
21st · Floridsdorf

Sophie, Kathi, and Maxi Wieninger — the next generation of one of Vienna's most respected wine families — run a pop-up Heuriger in the Stammersdorf vineyards under their own label, Wieninger.next. On August 23, from noon to 10 p.m., they're opening the vineyard at Krottenhofgasse 155 in the 21st. The wine list is theirs: SoMa, KaSoMa, SoSé. There's fruit juice from the garden if you want something lighter. The food is Wiener Heurigenküche — Oma Barbara's Erdapfelsalat, schnitzel, the things that belong at a table under vines. This is the kind of thing that exists because someone in their twenties decided to do something new with what they inherited, rather than just inherit it. Reserve ahead via Instagram DM or email.

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Don't Miss

Shows, openings and one-offs with a closing date. See them before they go.

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Sammy Obeid: Viva Vienna! — The Comedy Pub
Don't Miss

Sammy Obeid: Viva Vienna! — The Comedy Pub

When
27 August 2026

Sammy Obeid is a Palestinian-American comedian with a sharp, culturally specific set — not the usual expat comedy club fare. He's touring Europe and brings real observation to his work. Performing at The Comedy Pub Wien on August 27. The venue lists the show as almost full on Eventbrite, so ticket availability is worth checking. English-language comedy in Vienna is always in short supply, and this one is genuinely worth the effort.

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Liquid Market Festival 2026
Don't Miss14th · Penzing

Liquid Market Festival 2026

When
27 August 2026 – 29 August 2026
Where
14th · Penzing

Liquid Market Festival returns for three days to the Otto-Wagner-Areal in the 14th — a sprawling Jugendstil complex with parkland and pavilions that makes the venue half the reason to go. Over 150 bars and brands, from Vienna's established cocktail spots to regional producers, set up across the site. There are tastings, workshops, live music, and street food. The rhythm is loose: you drift between pavilions, try something, move on. After-parties run from 10 pm each night if you want to stay late. This is the kind of festival where the setting and the crowd matter as much as what's in your glass — the Areal itself has that slow-paced, slightly worn-in feel that makes Vienna's cultural events feel less like performances and more like someone left the doors open.

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Liquid Market Vienna – 11. Cocktail Festival
Don't Miss14th · Penzing

Liquid Market Vienna – 11. Cocktail Festival

When
27 August 2026 – 29 August 2026
Where
14th · Penzing

Austria's biggest cocktail festival returns to the Otto-Wagner-Areal in the 14th district — a sprawling Jugendstil complex on the edge of the Steinhof grounds. Over 150 bars and brands will be there, alongside presentations, tastings, live music, and street food vendors. The festival runs three days (August 27–29) across indoor and outdoor spaces, with daily afterparties from 22:00. Day tickets are €89 in advance. It's the kind of event that fills up quickly, so booking ahead is worth it.

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Worth Finding

Places that reward the detour. Mostly evergreen, always specific.

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Leones Gelato (pop-up Praterstraße)
Worth Finding2nd · Leopoldstadt

Leones Gelato (pop-up Praterstraße)

When
31 August 2026
Where
2nd · Leopoldstadt

Leones has opened a pop-up gelateria on Praterstraße in the 2nd district through the end of August. The focus is slow food and regional ingredients — a philosophy that shows in every scoop. The dark chocolate is dense and bitter-edged; the pineapple-mint (vegan) is bright and clean. The texture is genuinely creamy, the kind that tastes like it was made yesterday. Open daily 12pm–9pm. €3–5 per cone.

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Sekki Pop-Up — The Leo Grand, Bauernmarkt, the 1st
Worth Finding1st · Innere Stadt

Sekki Pop-Up — The Leo Grand, Bauernmarkt, the 1st

When
26 June 2026 – 31 August 2026
Where
1st · Innere Stadt

Sekki is a three-month summer pop-up from Lucas 'Lucky' Shong and Jake Bergholtz, two of Vienna's most respected young chefs. They've taken over the evening service (Friday to Sunday, 6pm–midnight) at The Leo Grand's restaurant on Bauernmarkt 1 in the 1st district, running through the end of August. The menu is deliberately unpretentious — Kittseer sourdough, duck-butter, liver crème brûlée, Bergholtz's grandmother's apricot dumplings, Korean fried chicken — built from the network and experience both have accumulated across Vienna's best restaurants. The space itself is baroque and slightly kitschy; they're leaning into that rather than against it. It's the kind of kitchen that works best as a temporary thing, which is precisely why it's worth finding now.

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CO14. Bezirk
Worth Finding14th · Penzing

Café Otto & Camillo — Otto-Wagner-Areal pop-up, the 14th

When
1 June 2026 – 30 September 2026
Where
14th · Penzing

The Otto-Wagner-Areal on Baumgartner Höhe is one of Vienna's most extraordinary architectural ensembles — a 1907 psychiatric hospital complex designed by Otto Wagner, now slowly repurposed for cultural use. This summer, Café Otto & Camillo has opened in Pavillon C as the grounds' anchor venue, serving coffee, cake, snacks, and drinks. The café's name honours both Otto Wagner (the architect) and Camillo Sitte (the urban planner whose ideas shaped Vienna's public spaces) — a specifically Viennese register. The setting matters as much as the coffee: Jugendstil pavilions, a hospital park, the city's architectural DNA visible in every detail. It's a trip worth making to the 14th district, especially early on a weekday morning when the grounds are quieter.

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Afrika Tage — African Culture Festival

When
14 August 2026 – 24 August 2026

Afrika Tage brings ten days of music, dance, food, and crafts from across Africa to the Donauinsel. The festival fills the island with evening concerts featuring international and African artists, a bazaar of textiles and handmade goods, and vendor stalls serving cuisine from the continent. It's genuinely multicultural — not a tourist attraction but a gathering that happens because Vienna has always been a crossroads. Entry is free (though donations are encouraged); food and drinks are sold separately. Running through August 24.

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Rooftop Series 2026 — Mariatrink, June 19 & ongoing
Out & About6th · Mariahilf

Rooftop Series 2026 — Mariatrink, June 19 & ongoing

When
19 June 2026 – 27 August 2026
Where
6th · Mariahilf

Fede Fröstl's Rooftop Series 2026 is a recurring evening of carefully curated sounds on Mariatrink's terrace — the rooftop bar of the Jaz in the City hotel on Windmühlgasse in the 6th. Free entry, four dates across the summer: June 19, July 11, July 30, August 27, all 20:00–23:00. Mariatrink is one of the better outdoor spots in the 6th district. The view earns the trip. The series format — recurring, free, curated — is the kind of summer fixture that becomes someone's monthly ritual. June 19 happens to be the same night as the Sommernachtskonzert, so you have two very different versions of a summer evening in Vienna to choose from.

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Gürtel Nightwalk XXVIII
Out & About8th · Josefstadt

Gürtel Nightwalk XXVIII

When
29 August 2026
Where
8th · Josefstadt

The last Saturday in August, the Gürtel transforms. Bars and venues from Alser Straße to Thaliastraße open their doors and spill onto the road — live bands, DJs, open-air stages, and the occasional design market tucked in between. Free entry across the board. This is the 28th edition of Vienna's most genuinely local music night: no sponsors, no VIP zone, no tourist angle — just the Gürtel doing what it does best, once a year, all night.

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On Screen

Independent and arthouse cinema across the city this week.

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Spring Wind: The Awakening at Urania / Stadtkino
On Screen1st · Innere Stadt

Spring Wind: The Awakening at Urania / Stadtkino

When
14 July 2026 – 19 August 2026
Where
1st · Innere Stadt

A year-long documentary following Péter Magyar's challenge to Viktor Orbán. Shot in intimate moments and public rallies, it captures a country deciding who it wants to be. The film was released free online in Hungary ahead of the election and watched 3.3 million times; Magyar's Tisza party won 137 of 199 parliamentary seats. For Vienna's international community, it's a rare chance to see Hungary's political upheaval from the inside, in Hungarian with English subtitles. Screening at Urania tonight (July 14), then continuing at Stadtkino from July 23 through August 19.

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Father Mother Sister Brother at Top Kino
On Screen6th · Mariahilf

Father Mother Sister Brother at Top Kino

When
11 August 2026 – 20 August 2026
Where
6th · Mariahilf

Jim Jarmusch's Golden Lion winner at Venice 2025 is a triptych of quiet family portraits — three chapters, three countries (USA, Ireland, France), one recurring question: what do adult children owe their parents, and what do parents owe each other? With a cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore, Charlotte Rampling, and Tom Waits, it's unmistakably Jarmusch: deadpan, melancholy, funny in the way only awkward silences can be. The multicultural structure — each chapter set in a different country, each family shaped by different cultural expectations around loyalty and distance — makes it feel genuinely international rather than just American indie. Top Kino is the right room for this: small, serious, the kind of place where Jarmusch's long pauses land properly. Runs through August 20 in OmdU.

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La Hija Cóndor at Filmcasino
On Screen5th · Margareten

La Hija Cóndor at Filmcasino

When
28 August 2026
Where
5th · Margareten

Álvaro Olmos Torrico's debut feature follows Clara, a young Quechua midwife in the Andes, caught between the ancient knowledge passed down by her adoptive mother and her own desire to escape to the city and become a singer. Shot in Spanish and Quechua in the mountains of Totorani, the film is hyper-specific to its landscape and culture — the Andean terrain, the Quechua songs, the politics of indigenous knowledge — yet completely universal in its story of a young woman choosing her own path. Olmos Torrico, born in Cochabamba, made a film that feels both intimate and expansive. It premiered at TIFF 2025 as a Centrepiece selection and has been picked up for distribution across multiple territories. Filmcasino's Cine Latino programming is one of the few places in Vienna where this kind of Latin American arthouse work gets a proper screening. German subtitles. Starts August 28.

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Vienna, any time of year

Places that are always worth it, whenever you finally go.

Cucina Limón Courtyard
Worth Finding1st · Innere Stadt

Cucina Limón Courtyard

Where
1st · Innere Stadt

Cucina Limón sits in the Dr. Karl Lueger Platz courtyard — one of those Vienna moments where the afternoon light hits the facades at exactly the right angle and you realize you've been standing there longer than you meant to. The aperitivo hour starts at 3pm, when the heat is still bearable and the South begins here. Drinks run €5–12, mostly wine. Gemischter Satz if you want something local and light, or Spritz if you're leaning into the season. The courtyard fills slowly in those hours — people from the neighbourhood, the museum crowd, someone's friend group that somehow always finds the good spots. The point isn't the food (though the snacks are there). It's the light, the pace, and the fact that three hours can pass without anyone checking their phone. This is the kind of place where you go for one drink and leave when the sun moves behind the buildings.

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Cayo Coco Rooftop Bar
Worth Finding7th · Neubau

Cayo Coco Rooftop Bar

Where
7th · Neubau

Cayo Coco sits above Vienna on The Hoxton's rooftop: a pool deck for daytime lounging, an open terrace for when the sun dips. The bar leans into Caribbean energy—tropical cocktails, good wine, cold beer, and a changing DJ line-up on Saturdays from 5:30pm. The kitchen opens from 5pm daily, and the terrace stays open until 11pm. Arrive early for small groups; parties of six or more should reserve ahead. No waitlist, no dogs.

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