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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
A canoe on the turquoise lake below the mountains, Lake Louise
Lake LouiseA canoe on the turquoise lake below the mountains

Photos: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Lake Louise by Andrew Patrick Photo, Pexels License.

Bologna or Lake Louise?

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 Bologna for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • day trips

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

Choose Lake Louise for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Lake Louise’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. Bologna 30, Lake Louise 5: Bologna leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Lake Louise 20: Bologna leads by 62 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna 77, Lake Louise 7: Bologna leads by 70 points.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Lake Louise 4: Bologna leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna 52, Lake Louise 97: Lake Louise leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Lake Louise 33: Bologna leads by 62 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Lake Louise 40: Bologna leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Lake Louise 28: Bologna leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna 55, Lake Louise 6: Bologna leads by 49 points.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Lake Louise 9: Bologna leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Lake Louise 3: Bologna leads by 57 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna 40, Lake Louise 42: Lake Louise leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Lake Louise.

Your match

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

Bologna
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Lake Louise
25match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Lake Louise in July

20 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
63 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Bologna 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.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

Lake Louise 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Lake Louise: 1991-2020 normals, Yoho Park (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBolognaLake Louise
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m1,600 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsCalgary International Airport (YYC)155 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaLake Louise
City population387,971-
People per km²2,754-
Museums within 10 km680
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32

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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). 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.