VacationSelector

Atlanta or Ottawa?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Ottawa
✓ Best match
43
match

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

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AtlantaOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Ottawa are level on 0.
AtlantaOttawa
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km09
Coast distance373 km423 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaOttawa
Score5964
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2334
Museums & heritage. Atlanta leads by 3 points.3
AtlantaOttawa
Score3532
Museums within 10 km4115
Museums within 2 km of centre168
Share of museums within 2 km %3953
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaOttawa
Score4944
Drinking venues within 4 km531432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5370
Nightclubs within 4 km4635
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 10 points.10
AtlantaOttawa
Score3141
Protected land share 50 km %18
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 14 points.14
AtlantaOttawa
Score3246
Tourist attractions within 2 km211
Park area within 2 km113 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 10 points.10
AtlantaOttawa
Score4050
Notable places within 2 km3971
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ottawa leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaOttawa
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 14 points.14
AtlantaOttawa
Score6753
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm53 mm to 94 mm
Dry months00
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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9

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). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaOttawa
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
2 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
CancunCUN
2 h 20 m
€265-370
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
1 h 25 m
€53-169
ATL · 14 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
Fort LauderdaleFLL, FXE
1 h 45 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 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

MeasureAtlantaOttawa
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation225 m70 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaOttawa
City population498,7151,017,449
People per km²1,433366
Museums within 10 km2720
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5662

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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.