VacationSelector

Calgary or Dublin?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryDublin
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
CalgaryDublin
Score049
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km411
Coast distance649 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 4 points.4
CalgaryDublin
Score6670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749920
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3637
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 46 points.46
CalgaryDublin
Score955
Museums within 10 km847
Museums within 2 km of centre337
Share of museums within 2 km %3879
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 20 points.20
CalgaryDublin
Score4464
Drinking venues within 4 km4651,239
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343934
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7475
Nightclubs within 4 km1940
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 10 points.10
CalgaryDublin
Score3626
Protected land share 50 km %43
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km142 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 13 points.13
CalgaryDublin
Score4154
Tourist attractions within 2 km341
Park area within 2 km142 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 23 points.23
CalgaryDublin
Score3962
Notable places within 2 km37141
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 3 points.3
CalgaryDublin
Score5457
Price level global8480.2
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Calgary leads by 3 points.3
CalgaryDublin
Score5754
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C8.2 °C to 19.5 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm52 mm to 83 mm
Dry months80
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryDublin
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
6 h 15 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€39-41
DUB · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
CancunCUN
5 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 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

MeasureCalgaryDublin
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m20 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryDublin
City population1,306,784592,713
People per km²1,5835,154
Museums within 10 km1340
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6774
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.