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Atlanta or Calgary?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Calgary
38
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

AtlantaCalgary
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Calgary are level on 0.
AtlantaCalgary
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance373 km649 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 7 points.7
AtlantaCalgary
Score5966
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739749
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2336
Museums & heritage. Atlanta leads by 26 points.26
AtlantaCalgary
Score359
Museums within 10 km418
Museums within 2 km of centre163
Share of museums within 2 km %3938
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaCalgary
Score4944
Drinking venues within 4 km531465
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5374
Nightclubs within 4 km4619
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaCalgary
Score3136
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares142 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 9 points.9
AtlantaCalgary
Score3241
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km113 hectares142 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Atlanta leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaCalgary
Score4039
Notable places within 2 km3937
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaCalgary
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 10 points.10
AtlantaCalgary
Score6757
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm9 mm to 106 mm
Dry months08
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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaCalgary
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
2 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 20 m
€165-240
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
2 h 55 m
€237-270
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
Puerto VallartaPVR
3 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaCalgary
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation225 m1,045 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaCalgary
City population498,7151,306,784
People per km²1,4331,583
Museums within 10 km2713
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5667

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.