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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
Parliament Hill across the Ottawa River, Ottawa
OttawaParliament Hill across the Ottawa River

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Ottawa by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Amman or Ottawa?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Amman for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’s own page.

Choose Ottawa for

  • getting around
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Ottawa’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Amman 22, Ottawa 35: Ottawa leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Ottawa 45: Amman leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Ottawa 62: Ottawa leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Ottawa 35: Ottawa leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Ottawa 68: Ottawa leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Ottawa 55: Amman leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Ottawa 68: Ottawa leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Ottawa 62: Ottawa leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Ottawa 40: Amman leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Ottawa 40: Amman leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Ottawa 52: Ottawa leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman and Ottawa are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Ottawa.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Amman
45match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Ottawa
Best match
51match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Ottawa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanOttawa
Official languageArabicFrench, English
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation776 m70 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanOttawa
City population4,007,5261,017,449
People per km²2,385366
Museums within 10 km820
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.