Where to Buy Groceries on Sundays and Holidays in Vienna

Sundays in Vienna are meant to be spent with family, regardless if going out of town, watching movie at home, playing at the park, eating out, or visiting a free museum (especially if it is the month’s first Sunday). Thus, shopping stores are closed as most grocery stores. In fact, only a handful are open, and you have to maybe travel a bit if you weren’t able to do your grocery shopping for the week. Also, not all items might be sold on Sundays.

Sure gas stations are open but they sell items a bit more expensive and there aren’t a lot of the food you need for cooking. For many years, Billa – Austria’s supermarket chain operating since 1953, was the only one with stores open on Sundays, and only 2 at that (4 including the ones at the Airport). In recent years, Interspar (and Spar) introduced smaller stores/kiosks that sell only food and drinks. They are open on Sundays to accommodate tourists as well as hospital guests, as most of them shops can be found at train stations and hospital premises.

Generally, restaurants, cafés, and souvenir shops are open on Sundays to cater to tourists, particularly at the first district. Pharmacies are assigned (Nachtapotheken and Apothekendienst) to open for services alternately, 3 branches at most are open in each district.

During the pandemic, grocery delivery services  within the day (as fast as 15 minutes) brought relief to most of us, especially since we can avail of such on Sundays too. Here’s an unofficial list of both grocery and food delivers services in Vienna.

Now, in case you run out of eggs and have everything else at home, head to any of these shops where you can buy groceries on Sundays, just choose the one nearest you.
Note: not all listed will be open on holidays.

1010 (First District)

• Bistro – Spar Markt, Babenbergerstraße 9 corner Getreidemarkt (opposite the Art History Museum)
  10.00-19.00
• OKAY Markt, Schottentor train station (below, where the tracks of tram 43 are located)
  8.00-22.00
• Henry Billa Corso im Herrnhuterhaus, Neuer Markt 17 (side of Benetton)
  10.00-20.00

 

1020 (Second District)

• Billa Praterstern Bahnhof Wien Nord, Praterstern train station
  6.00-22.00

• OKAY Reiseproviant, Praterstern train station

  10.00-23.00

 

1030 (Third District)

• SPAR Pronto Wien Mitte Mall, Landstraßer Hauptstraße (to the right of the Mall’s escalators)
  6:00 – 23:00

1060 (Sixth District)

• Kiosk Kaunitzgasse Kaunitzgasse 1, 1060
  9:00 – 23:00

 

1090 (Ninth District)

• SPAR Markt AKH, Währinger Gürtel – inside the hospital
  9:00 – 19:00
• Billa Franz-Josef- Bahnhof Julius Tandler Platz 3
  6.00-22.00
• Bipa Franz-Josef- Bahnhof Julius Tandler Platz 3
  6.00-22.00

1100 (Tenth District)

• Turmöl gas station / Spar express, Grenzackerstraße 2/4
  6:00 – 24:00
• Favoritner gas station / Spar express, Absberggasse 26
  6:00 – 22:00
• JET gas station / Billa Stop and Shop, Neilreichgasse 39
  6:00 – 22:00

 

1110 (Eleventh District)

• Interspar Pronto Wien Hauptbahnhof train station, Am Hauptbahnhof 1
  6:00 – 23:00

 

1150 (Fifteenth District)

• Merkur mini-markt Bahnhof City Wien, Westbahnhof train station
  9:00-21:00
• U3 Supermarkt Bahnhof City Wien, Westbahnhof train station
  7:00-24:00

1190 (Nineteenth District)

• Turmöl gas station / Spar express, Krottenbachstraße 233
  6:00 – 22:00

1210 (Twenty-first District)

• Interspar Take Away Wien Floridsdorf, Franz Jonas-Platz 6
  7:00 – 18:00
• SPAR Markt, Krankenhaus Nord, Brünner Straße 68-70
  8:00 – 18:00
• Turmöl gas station / Spar express, Prager Straße 155
  6:00 – 24:00

 

1230 (Twenty-third District)

• Turmöl gas station / Spar express, Altmannsdorfer Straße 150
  6:00 – 24:00

Schwechat

• Spar Airport Wien-Schwechat, Schwechat
  6.30-22.00
• Billa Airport Wien-Schwechat, Ausfahrtsstraße Gst 611/1, 1300 Schwechat
  6.30-21.00
• Billa Airport Wien-Schwechat, Inlandstraße Terminal 1 – Arcade, 1300 Schwechat
  7.00-19.00

Bakeries

Turkish Shops