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Calgary or Fort Lauderdale?

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 sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

CalgaryFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
CalgaryFort Lauderdale
Score084
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km47
Coast distance649 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 21 points.21
CalgaryFort Lauderdale
Score6645
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3618
Museums & heritage. Fort Lauderdale leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryFort Lauderdale
Score920
Museums within 10 km814
Museums within 2 km of centre36
Share of museums within 2 km %3843
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 10 points.10
CalgaryFort Lauderdale
Score4434
Drinking venues within 4 km465259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7456
Nightclubs within 4 km1918
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 45 points.45
CalgaryFort Lauderdale
Score3681
Protected land share 50 km %420
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km142 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 22 points.22
CalgaryFort Lauderdale
Score4119
Tourist attractions within 2 km32
Park area within 2 km142 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Calgary leads by 39 points.39
CalgaryFort Lauderdale
Score390
Notable places within 2 km372
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryFort Lauderdale
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 19 points.19
CalgaryFort Lauderdale
Score5776
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

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). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryFort Lauderdale
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
OttawaYOW, YND
4 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
1 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
4 h 0 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
NassauNAS
5 h 40 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 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

MeasureCalgaryFort Lauderdale
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,045 m11 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryFort Lauderdale
City population1,306,784182,760
People per km²1,5831,829
Museums within 10 km136
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6725
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.