VacationSelector

Calgary or Florence?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

CalgaryFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Florence are level on 0.
CalgaryFlorence
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance649 km78 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 7 points.7
CalgaryFlorence
Score6659
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7491,299
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3615
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 73 points.73
CalgaryFlorence
Score982
Museums within 10 km8132
Museums within 2 km of centre393
Share of museums within 2 km %3870
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Florence leads by 12 points.12
CalgaryFlorence
Score4456
Drinking venues within 4 km465818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343599
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7473
Nightclubs within 4 km1934
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 2 points.2
CalgaryFlorence
Score3638
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares86 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryFlorence
Score4152
Tourist attractions within 2 km330
Park area within 2 km142 hectares86 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 36 points.36
CalgaryFlorence
Score3975
Notable places within 2 km37292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 14 points.14
CalgaryFlorence
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryFlorence
Score5768
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C10.8 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months82
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

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). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryFlorence
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 70 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

MeasureCalgaryFlorence
Official languageFrench, EnglishItalian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m50 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryFlorence
City population1,306,784360,930
People per km²1,5833,528
Museums within 10 km13140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre6762

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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. 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.