Graz itinerary: 2 days, 22 stops from real app data

A Graz 2-day itinerary of 22 places from the NomadSwipe app's data, all within 1.4 km of the city-centre pin: the old town on day one, the Joanneum quarter, Kunsthaus and galleries on day two. Thirteen stops have stored hours that every start time fits; nine have none.

Disclosure: I built NomadSwipe (Android), and I wrote this guide. Ratings, review counts, addresses and opening hours are the values stored in the app's Graz place data, read on 9 November 2026. I did not check when those rows were written, so treat the hours as a snapshot of unknown age and check before you go.

The plan at a glance

• Day 1, the old town on foot (12 stops): Opera Graz, the Burgtor, the Mausoleum of Emperor Ferdinand II, the Grazer Stadtkern pin, Freiheitsplatz, lunch at Steak Boutique, the Landhaus, the Gemaltes Haus, the Altstadt von Graz pin, the Zanderhof, the Uhrturm and dinner at El Gaucho at Landhaus.
• Day 2, the Joanneum quarter, Kunsthaus and Griesgasse (10 stops): the New Gallery Graz, Ducks coffee shop, lunch at cafe erde, the Kunsthaus Graz, gallery lendnine, Artelier Contemporary, Omas Teekanne Cafe, off_gallery graz, the Bertha von Suttner Statue and dinner at Ginko.
• One day in Graz: day one on its own is a one-day plan. All 12 stops sit within 0.84 km of each other by straight line.
• Days of the week: day one works Tuesday to Saturday, day two only on Wednesday or Thursday. I assume Tuesday and Wednesday.
• Distance: day one adds up to about 2.2 km and day two to about 2.5 km by straight line between stored coordinates. These are not travel times.

A Graz deck with 31 sights, and only 12 of them rated

The Graz data in the app is one destination row with 377 cards and 377 distinct place IDs. 179 of those cards sit within 4 km of the destination's centre pin; the other 198 are farther away, and 67 of those are more than 1,000 km away (the ones I looked at are New York museums). Of the 179, 94 have a stored rating and 112 have stored opening hours. Counting by stored category, 92 are restaurants, bars and cafes, 29 are hotels and 31 are sights, in five categories: art gallery (11), historical site (10), tourist attraction (5), theater and concert hall (3) and museum (2). Two of the galleries share one pin, so there are 30 distinct sight locations. Only 12 of the 31 sights have a stored rating, 15 have stored hours and three clear a line of 4.0 or higher with at least 100 stored reviews: the Altstadt von Graz pin, the Grazer Landhaus and the Mausoleum of Emperor Ferdinand II. Three of the five tourist attractions are nightclubs, so I left them out.

• One pin carries the reviews. The 12 rated sights hold 2,354 stored reviews between them, and the Altstadt von Graz pin alone holds 1,482 of them, 63 percent. The Kunsthaus Graz holds another 503. Most of the other sights are small galleries or monuments with no rating.
• Nine stops have no stored hours. Opera Graz, the Burgtor, Freiheitsplatz, the Landhaus, the Gemaltes Haus, the Altstadt von Graz pin, the Uhrturm, gallery lendnine and the Bertha von Suttner Statue could not be matched to a weekday. They are flagged in the plan.
• No Schlossberg, Murinsel or Eggenberg sight card. A title search of all 377 cards found none of them. The Uhrturm, which is on the Schlossberg, is in the data; I name the others because you will look for them, and they are not in the plan because the data has no card to plan around.
• Prices, tickets and transport are left out. I read no official ticket or transit page this run, so check each place's own website the day you go.

A short real-world cross-check, from one read of Wikipedia on 9 November 2026: the article on Graz says the historic centre was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1999 and was extended in 2010 to include Schloss Eggenberg, that the centre "consists of over 1,000 buildings, their age ranging from Gothic to contemporary", and that the Uhrturm is a symbol of Graz at the top of Castle Hill, the hill dominating the centre. Nothing in the plan depends on those facts; they explain why one old-town pin collects most of the reviews.

Which days of the week work

I wrote the stored weekly hours of the 13 stops that have them into a script, set a suggested start time and length for each stop, and tested every weekday. A stop fails a day if it is stored as closed, or if the visit does not fit inside the stored opening window. The nine stops without stored hours cannot be tested.

Closed days bite harder for sights than for Graz places as a whole. Of the 112 places within 4 km with stored hours, 29 are stored as closed on Monday. Of the 15 sights with stored hours, 12 show at least one closed day: Monday for 10 of them, Sunday for 9, Saturday for 6, Tuesday for 3 and Friday for 1. Most of that is small galleries, which are stored as open only on weekday afternoons; the Kunsthaus Graz, the New Gallery Graz and the Mausoleum are each stored as closed on Monday only. That is why day two is the fragile one: the Artelier Contemporary is stored as open on Wednesday to Friday from 2 PM to 6 PM and off_gallery graz on Tuesday to Thursday from 3 PM to 6 PM, so the two overlap on Wednesday and Thursday. If you can only do day two on a Saturday, drop those two galleries and the rest of day two is stored as open. Hours also change with the season and on public holidays, so confirm before you go.

Day 1: the old town on foot

Day one never leaves a patch under a kilometre across. By straight line between stored coordinates the farthest pair, Opera Graz and the Zanderhof, is 0.84 km apart, and going stop to stop adds up to about 2.2 km. The longest leg is the 0.42 km from the Uhrturm back down to dinner. I read no transit or road source this run, so I give straight-line distances only. Times below are my suggested start times.

1. 9:30, Opera Graz: stored as a theater and concert hall at Kaiser-Josef Platz 10, 4.6 from 50 reviews, with no stored hours, so there is nothing to match a visit to. Treat it as a look from outside.
2. 10:00, Burgtor: stored as a historical site on Erzherzog-Johann Allee, 4.6 from only 5 reviews, no stored hours. 0.37 km from the Opera.
3. 10:30, Mausoleum of Emperor Ferdinand II: stored as a historical site, 4.2 from 120 reviews, open 9 AM to 6 PM from Tuesday to Sunday and closed on Monday. 0.07 km from the Burgtor.
4. 11:15, Grazer Stadtkern: stored as a historical site, 5.0 from 2 reviews, with stored hours of 7:30 AM to 8 PM every day. It is a city-centre pin, not a building, so the rating says little. 0.14 km from the Mausoleum.
5. 11:45, Freiheitsplatz: stored as a historical site, no rating and no stored hours. 0.13 km from the previous pin.
6. 12:30, Steak Boutique: stored as a restaurant, 4.4 from 258 reviews, open 11:30 AM to 2 PM and 6 PM to 10 PM from Monday to Saturday and closed on Sunday. A 75-minute lunch ends 15 minutes before the stored lunch break. 0.25 km from Freiheitsplatz.
7. 14:00, Grazer Landhaus: stored as a historical site at Herrengasse 16, 4.5 from 138 reviews, no stored hours. 0.23 km from lunch.
8. 14:30, Gemaltes Haus: stored as a historical site, 4.3 from 24 reviews, no stored hours. 0.08 km from the Landhaus.
9. 15:00, Altstadt von Graz: stored as a historical site, 4.6 from 1,482 reviews, the most reviewed sight in the data, with no stored hours. It is a single pin for the whole old town. 0.11 km from the Gemaltes Haus.
10. 15:30, Zanderhof: stored as a historical site at Sackstraße 26, no rating, stored hours of 8 AM to 9 PM every day. 0.29 km from the Altstadt pin.
11. 16:00, Uhrturm: stored as a historical site at the foot of the Schlossberg ("Am Fuße des Schloßberges"), no rating, no stored hours. 0.12 km from the Zanderhof. I allow an hour, because Wikipedia places the tower at the top of Castle Hill and I read no lift, path or ticket source, so I cannot say how long the way up takes.
12. 18:30, El Gaucho at Landhaus: stored as a restaurant at Landhausgasse 1, 4.5 from 1,320 reviews, open 5 PM to midnight from Monday to Thursday, 11:30 AM to 11 PM on Friday and Sunday and to midnight on Saturday. 0.42 km from the Uhrturm.

Day 2: the Joanneum quarter, the Kunsthaus and Griesgasse

Day two starts in the Joanneum quarter, moves west to the Kunsthaus and a run of small galleries around Griesgasse, then ends at dinner back toward the centre pin. The farthest pair, gallery lendnine and Ginko, is 1.03 km apart, and going stop to stop adds up to about 2.5 km. The longest legs are the last two: 0.48 km from off_gallery to the statue and 0.91 km on to dinner. The middle of day two sits about 0.49 km from the middle of day one, so the two days sit on top of each other on the map. Times below are my suggested start times.

1. 10:00, New Gallery Graz: stored as a museum in the Joanneumsviertel, 4.3 from 7 reviews, open 10 AM to 6 PM from Tuesday to Sunday and closed on Monday. A 75-minute visit is my guess, not a stored figure.
2. 11:15, Ducks coffee shop: stored as a cafe at Raubergasse 14, 4.3 from 44 reviews, open 7:30 AM to 6 PM on weekdays and 9 AM to 6 PM on Saturday and Sunday. 0.06 km from the gallery.
3. 12:15, cafe erde: stored as a restaurant, 4.8 from 239 reviews, open 11:30 AM to 10 PM every day. 0.27 km from the coffee shop.
4. 13:45, Kunsthaus Graz: stored as a museum, 3.7 from 503 reviews, the lowest rating of any stop in this plan, open 10 AM to 6 PM from Tuesday to Sunday and closed on Monday. Wikipedia describes it as the contemporary art museum opened in 2003, nicknamed the Friendly Alien, with no permanent exhibitions, so what you see depends on the current show. 0.24 km from lunch.
5. 15:00, gallery lendnine: stored as an art gallery at 8020 Graz, no rating, no stored hours. A second card, Helmi Mubarak, has the same coordinates, so I count one stop. 0.04 km from the Kunsthaus.
6. 15:20, Artelier Contemporary: stored as an art gallery at Griesgasse 3, no rating, open 2 PM to 6 PM from Wednesday to Friday and stored as closed on every other day. 0.13 km from lendnine.
7. 15:55, Omas Teekanne Cafe: stored as a cafe at Nikolaiplatz 1, 4.4 from 48 reviews, open 9 AM to 6 PM from Tuesday to Saturday, 9 AM to 1:30 PM on Sunday and closed on Monday. 0.24 km from Artelier.
8. 16:35, off_gallery graz: stored as an art gallery at Griesgasse 31, no rating, open 3 PM to 6 PM from Tuesday to Thursday and stored as closed on the other four days. A start at 16:35 leaves 1 hour 25 minutes. 0.14 km from the cafe.
9. 17:15, Bertha von Suttner Statue: stored as a historical site, no rating and no stored hours. 0.48 km from off_gallery.
10. 18:30, Ginko: stored as a restaurant at Grazbachgasse 33, 4.7 from 295 reviews, open 11:30 AM to 9 PM from Monday to Saturday and closed on Sunday. 0.91 km from the statue, the longest leg of the day.

Where the stored hours bind

These are the stops whose stored hours decide the day or the start time.

What I left out, and why

The plan uses all 10 historical sites and both museums. The rest of the 31 sight cards are below, and so are the places to eat that I passed over.

• Eight art galleries. upTown Art Galerie (5.0 from 11 reviews, closed Sunday and Monday), Bakerhouse Gallery (5.0 from 5 reviews, 2.55 km out, open Tuesday to Friday only), Galerie GRILL, Galerie ROOM OF FINE ARTS, Gallery Zimmermann Kratochwill, EBENSPERGER GRAZ, The art gallery Holasek and Helmi Mubarak. Most have no rating and open a few afternoons a week, so I picked the three that sit on one run around Griesgasse and the Kunsthaus.
• Two other theatres. Graz National Theatre (4.0 from 7 reviews, no stored hours) and Komödie Graz (no rating, no hours). Opera Graz has the most reviews of the three.
• Three nightclubs and two other attractions. The three nightclubs are filed as tourist attractions. Gallery Leonhard is stored under the same category and is a gallery by name. The Denkmal für die Opfer der Weltkriege has no rating or hours.
• Other places to eat. Freigeist Burger (4.5 from 503 reviews, open noon to 10 PM, 0.54 km from the centre pin) and Trattoria Veneziana (4.5 from 139 reviews, 3.30 km out) also clear 4.4 with stored hours but did not fit the route. La Tavernetta is 4.3 from 115 reviews and stored as closed on Sunday and Wednesday.
• Sights with no stored hours. 16 of the 31 sight cards have none. The plan uses nine of them and flags each.

Getting around between the stops

• Both days are compact. No leg is longer than 0.91 km by straight line, and 16 of the 20 legs are under 0.3 km. At an assumed 5 km/h, day one is about 27 minutes of pure walking and day two about 30, before hills, stairs and queues. I read no transit, taxi or parking source, so I give no fares or times beyond that arithmetic.
• Straight lines understate the trip. Streets and the Mur make each real leg longer. The Landhaus is 0.43 km from the Kunsthaus by straight line, but I read no map or route source, so I cannot say how direct the walk is.
• The Uhrturm leg is the unknown. The stored pin is at the foot of the Schlossberg and I read nothing on how to get up. Allow more time or drop it.
• In the app: each card shows its distance and opening status, and the list sorts by rating, distance or A to Z.

How I would swipe the Graz deck

I built NomadSwipe, so this is the method I would use, not a trip I already took. I would open the Graz deck and swipe right on the historical sites, museums and the few well-reviewed places to eat, and left on anything with a New York address, because the deck holds dozens of those, and on the nightclubs filed as attractions. I would check any card without a rating or hours before saving it, since 19 of the 31 sights have no rating. Then I would open the map to see which saved places cluster. In this data they fall into one tight old-town group that day one uses whole, a smaller group around the Joanneum quarter and the Kunsthaus, and a line of galleries around Griesgasse that day two follows. The closed-day pattern above is the part to check last, because a good cluster can still be shut on a Monday. NomadSwipe is Android only.

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Questions about this Graz plan

Can you do Graz in one day?

On paper, yes: the 12 stops of day one never leave a patch 0.84 km across by straight line between stored coordinates, so day one alone is a one-day Graz walk through the old town. What it leaves out is the Joanneum quarter, the Kunsthaus and the galleries around Griesgasse, which are day two. If you only have one day, use day one and add the Kunsthaus, which is 0.43 km from the Landhaus by straight line.

Which days of the week work for this Graz plan?

By the stored hours, day one works from Tuesday to Saturday and day two works only on Wednesday or Thursday, so the pairs that work are Tuesday and Wednesday or Wednesday and Thursday. Day one fails on Monday because the Mausoleum of Emperor Ferdinand II is stored as closed, and on Sunday because Steak Boutique is stored as closed. Day two fails on Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday because the two small galleries on the route (Artelier Contemporary and off_gallery graz) are stored as closed on those days. Nine stops have no stored hours and are not tested. The hours may have changed since they were stored, so confirm them before you go.

Do I need a car or a tram for this Graz plan?

I read no transit, taxi or parking source, so I cannot say what is available. By straight line between stored coordinates, no leg is longer than 0.91 km, day one totals about 2.2 km and day two about 2.5 km. At an assumed 5 km/h that is roughly half an hour of walking a day before stairs, hills and photo stops, so the plan is built to be walked.

Why does the app's Graz deck have no Schlossberg or Murinsel card?

I searched all 377 cards stored under Graz by title for Schlossberg, Murinsel, Eggenberg, Zeughaus and Joanneum and found no sight card for any of them; the title matches were a hotel named after the Schlossberg, an apartment and a bar named after the Joanneum quarter, and a theatre festival 9 km away (Schlossspiele Reinthal). The Uhrturm card, which stands on the Schlossberg, is in the data and in the plan. The missing cards are a gap in the stored data, not a statement about what Graz has.

How were the 22 stops chosen?

From the 179 cards within 4 km of the centre pin I used all 10 historic sites, both museums, one of three theatres and three of eleven art galleries, then added four restaurants and two cafes with stored ratings of 4.3 or higher. That gave 16 sights, four restaurants and two cafes. Each suggested start time was then tested against the stored weekly hours for the 13 stops that have them.

Findings, method and sample

Sample and method. I read the NomadSwipe app's place data on 9 November 2026 with read-only queries. Graz is stored as one destination row with 377 cards and 377 distinct place IDs (373 distinct places by case-insensitive title and address). The data is not limited to the city, so I defined "in Graz" as a card whose stored coordinates fall within 4 km, by the haversine formula, of the destination's stored centre pin (47.0667 N, 15.4500 E). That keeps 179 cards and drops 198; 67 of the dropped cards are more than 1,000 km from the pin. The counts below are of the 179 unless stated. I defined sights by stored category name: art gallery, historical site, tourist attraction, theater and concert hall and museum. That is 31 cards, or 30 distinct locations, since gallery lendnine and Helmi Mubarak share one pin. I first listed every distinct category name within 4 km (restaurant 67, hotel 29, bar 15, beauty and spa 13, art gallery 11, cafe 10, historical site 10, vacation rentals 5, tourist attraction 5, theater and concert hall 3, sports and recreation 3, museum 2 and six single-card categories) and found no other category that holds a sight; a stored amusement place, the Virtual Escape Room Graz (4.8 from 40 reviews), is an activity and I left it out. An empty or missing hours list counts as no stored hours. I measured distance in a straight line between stored coordinates.

• Of the 179 cards, 94 have a stored rating and 112 have stored weekly hours. 38 are rated 4.0 or higher with at least 100 stored reviews, and 29 of the 112 with hours show Monday as closed. 92 are restaurants, bars and cafes and 29 are hotels.
• Of the 31 sight cards, 12 have a stored rating and reviews, 15 have stored hours and 16 have none. Rated 4.0 or higher with at least 100 stored reviews: 3 sights (the Altstadt von Graz pin, the Grazer Landhaus and the Mausoleum of Emperor Ferdinand II). The 100 line is mine, not a rule in the app.
• The 12 rated sights hold 2,354 stored reviews in total. The Altstadt von Graz pin has 1,482 (63 percent) and the Kunsthaus Graz 503 (21 percent).
• Of the 15 sights with stored hours, 12 show at least one closed day: Monday 10, Sunday 9, Saturday 6, Tuesday 3 and Friday 1.
• Three of the five tourist-attraction cards are nightclubs. The title search for Schlossberg, Murinsel, Eggenberg, Zeughaus and Joanneum across all 377 cards found no sight card for any of them.
• I chose the 22 stops by hand: 16 sights (all 10 historical sites, both museums, one of three theatres and three of eleven art galleries), four restaurants (rated 4.4 to 4.8 with 239 to 1,320 reviews and stored hours) and two cafes (the only rated cafes with stored ratings of 4.0 or higher, 4.3 and 4.4, each with under 50 reviews). They are not simply the 22 highest-rated cards. Thirteen have stored hours. The stops span six stored categories: historical site, museum, art gallery, theater and concert hall, restaurant and cafe.
• Using straight-line distance between stored coordinates, day one totals about 2.2 km (longest leg 0.42 km, farthest pair 0.84 km) and day two about 2.5 km (longest leg 0.91 km, farthest pair 1.03 km). The middle points of the two days are about 0.49 km apart, and the farthest stop from the centre pin is the Bertha von Suttner Statue at 1.36 km. These are not walking times.
• Weekday test: with each visit length set by me, the 13 stops that have stored hours pass on Tuesday to Saturday for day one and on Wednesday and Thursday for day two. The test script is mine and was run on the stored values.

Limits: the ratings, review counts and hours are stored values of unknown age and may have changed. Nine stops have no stored hours and are not weekday-tested. The suggested start times and visit lengths are mine and are checked only against stored hours. The 4 km radius and the choice of sight categories are my own definitions and were not checked card by card, so a few misfiled cards may remain. Many pins in the data carry only a postcode as an address. I left out fees, tickets, transport and travel times because I read no official page for them, and I did not copy any third-party review text.

Sources

• Place data: the NomadSwipe app's Graz places (names, categories, ratings, review counts, addresses, coordinates and weekly hours as stored), read 9 November 2026.
• Wikipedia, Graz, read 9 November 2026: UNESCO listing in 1999 and 2010 extension, over 1,000 buildings in the historic centre, the Uhrturm at the top of Castle Hill.
• Wikipedia, Kunsthaus Graz, read 9 November 2026: opened 2003, nickname Friendly Alien, no permanent exhibitions.