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Cairo or Calgary?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

The Calgary Tower above Olympic Plaza, Calgary
Calgary

Photo: abdallahh, CC BY 2.0, cropped

Your match

Cairo
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Calgary
46
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and 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

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

CairoCalgary
Beaches & swimming. Cairo leads by 2 points.2
Food & drink. Cairo leads by 15 points.15
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 61 points.61
Nightlife. Cairo leads by 8 points.8
Nature & outdoors. Calgary leads by 58 points.58
Day trips. Cairo leads by 11 points.11
Good for families. Calgary leads by 36 points.36
Getting around. Calgary leads by 7 points.7
Shopping & style. Cairo leads by 16 points.16
Affordability. Cairo leads by 53 points.53
Live music & performing arts. Cairo leads by 4 points.4
Wellness & relaxation. Calgary leads by 27 points.27
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and Calgary.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyCairoCalgary
Daytime high36 °C25 °C
Night-time low23 °C11 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm44 mm
Sunshine12 hours a dayNo figure
Daylight14 hours a day16 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Rainfall, mm
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Daylight, hours per day
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7
Calgary
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCairoCalgary
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 30 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
11 h 15 m
€624-1013
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
4 h 5 m
€245-328
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 25 m
€249-480
CAI · 17 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€280-302
CAI · 17 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
Abu DhabiAUH
3 h 30 m
€191-269
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
14 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 15 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 55 m
€267-300
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 5 m
€267-335
CAI · 17 km
10 h 5 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

MeasureCairoCalgary
Official languageArabicFrench, English
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation23 m1,045 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairoCalgary
City population9,801,5361,306,784
People per km²18,5641,583
Museums within 10 km4813
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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Sources

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). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.