VacationSelector

Berlin or Ottawa?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Ottawa
43
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.

BerlinOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Ottawa are level on 0.
BerlinOttawa
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km179
Coast distance142 km423 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 6 points.6
BerlinOttawa
Score7064
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3334
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 47 points.47
BerlinOttawa
Score7932
Museums within 10 km20015
Museums within 2 km of centre818
Share of museums within 2 km %4153
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 32 points.32
BerlinOttawa
Score7644
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3470
Nightclubs within 4 km13535
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 8 points.8
BerlinOttawa
Score4941
Protected land share 50 km %208
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 30 points.30
BerlinOttawa
Score7646
Tourist attractions within 2 km5411
Park area within 2 km141 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 34 points.34
BerlinOttawa
Score8450
Notable places within 2 km48671
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 6 points.6
BerlinOttawa
Score6054
Price level global75.984
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 7 points.7
BerlinOttawa
Score6053
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm53 mm to 94 mm
Dry months30
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Ottawa
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinOttawa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 20 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
1 h 20 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBerlinOttawa
Official languageGermanFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation34 m70 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinOttawa
City population3,782,2021,017,449
People per km²4,244366
Museums within 10 km15820
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8662

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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). 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.