VacationSelector

Athens or Calgary?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Calgary
38
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AthensCalgary
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 48 points.48
AthensCalgary
Score480
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km144
Coast distance6 km649 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 3 points.3
AthensCalgary
Score6966
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431749
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2536
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 64 points.64
AthensCalgary
Score739
Museums within 10 km1228
Museums within 2 km of centre783
Share of museums within 2 km %6438
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Athens leads by 37 points.37
AthensCalgary
Score8144
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718465
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5074
Nightclubs within 4 km13619
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 9 points.9
AthensCalgary
Score4536
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %50100
Park area within 2 km128 hectares142 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 30 points.30
AthensCalgary
Score7141
Tourist attractions within 2 km683
Park area within 2 km128 hectares142 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 36 points.36
AthensCalgary
Score7539
Notable places within 2 km29137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 20 points.20
AthensCalgary
Score7454
Price level global55.884
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 17 points.17
AthensCalgary
Score7457
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm9 mm to 106 mm
Dry months78
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
Calgary
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensCalgary
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 15 m
€634
ATH · 20 km
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
11 h 0 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAthensCalgary
Official languageGreekFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation74 m1,045 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensCalgary
City population643,4521,306,784
People per km²16,4991,583
Museums within 10 km8813
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8267
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.