VacationSelector

Calgary or Hong Kong?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

CalgaryHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 87 points.87
CalgaryHong Kong
Score087
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km465
Coast distance649 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 22 points.22
CalgaryHong Kong
Score6688
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7494,325
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3632
Museums & heritage. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
CalgaryHong Kong
Score936
Museums within 10 km850
Museums within 2 km of centre317
Share of museums within 2 km %3834
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
CalgaryHong Kong
Score4471
Drinking venues within 4 km4651,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3431,154
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7459
Nightclubs within 4 km1937
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 28 points.28
CalgaryHong Kong
Score3664
Protected land share 50 km %48
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10029
Park area within 2 km142 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 17 points.17
CalgaryHong Kong
Score4158
Tourist attractions within 2 km327
Park area within 2 km142 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km55
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 30 points.30
CalgaryHong Kong
Score3969
Notable places within 2 km37204
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 9 points.9
CalgaryHong Kong
Score5463
Price level global8472
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 17 points.17
CalgaryHong Kong
Score5774
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C19.4 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm23 mm to 493 mm
Dry months84
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5

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). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryHong Kong
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
1 h 30 m
€77-88
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 55 m
€237-270
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
San FranciscoSFO
2 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 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

MeasureCalgaryHong Kong
Official languageFrench, EnglishStandard Chinese
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation1,045 m7 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryHong Kong
City population1,306,7847,413,070
People per km²1,583
Museums within 10 km1339
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6776
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.