How to find out what Vienna district you are in

**First District street sign — (See the Roman numeral ‘I’ next to the word Stadt on the street sign)**

Vienna has 23 districts – how do you know which one you are in?

When I moved to Vienna, Austria almost seven years ago, I had already lived in four other countries and traveled to over 50 others.

Some for extended periods of time.

And here it is.

Walking around Vienna, just about every block on every street has a sign on its corner telling you where you currently are in the capital city.

**8th District street sign (see a similar sign on the same building but around the corner so on a different street in the photo below)**

The sign will have a number and then the street name. (**Sometimes the number is in a Roman numeral eg: IX, so you will need to know your Roman numbers).

And yes, as obvious as it is, I missed it — the NUMBER on the sign is the number of the district you are in. Duh.

**Sign right around the corner from the photo above — still in the 8th District**

With most Viennese going by the district number rather than the name, telling anyone the number of the district you are in will help them get to you quicker.

So, the next time someone asks you “What Vienna district are you in?”, you only have to look for the number on the closest street sign.

Then you can answer “The Seventh”.

For even more information, here are the 23 Vienna districts and their names:

Innere Stadt — the city centre or ‘Inner City’, usually known as ‘The First District’
Leopoldstadt — The Second District…
Landstraße
Wieden
Margareten
Mariahilf
Neubau
Josefstadt
Alsergrund
Favoriten
Simmering
Meidling
Hietzing
Penzing
Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus
Ottakring
Hernals
Währing
Döbling
Brigittenau
Floridsdorf
Donaustadt
Liesing