VacationSelector

Calgary or Faro?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Faro
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

CalgaryFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
CalgaryFaro
Score061
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km413
Coast distance649 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 22 points.22
CalgaryFaro
Score6644
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3622
Museums & heritage. Faro leads by 13 points.13
CalgaryFaro
Score922
Museums within 10 km89
Museums within 2 km of centre38
Share of museums within 2 km %3889
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 23 points.23
CalgaryFaro
Score4421
Drinking venues within 4 km465143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7486
Nightclubs within 4 km198
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 21 points.21
CalgaryFaro
Score3657
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km142 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 5 points.5
CalgaryFaro
Score4136
Tourist attractions within 2 km310
Park area within 2 km142 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Calgary leads by 17 points.17
CalgaryFaro
Score3922
Notable places within 2 km3714
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 20 points.20
CalgaryFaro
Score5474
Price level global8455.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 26 points.26
CalgaryFaro
Score5783
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months86
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

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). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureCalgaryFaro
Official languageFrench, EnglishPortuguese
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m10 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryFaro
City population1,306,78464,560
People per km²1,583319
Museums within 10 km132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6734
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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.