VacationSelector

Calgary or London?

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.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CalgaryLondon
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and London are level on 0.
CalgaryLondon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km447
Coast distance649 km43 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 22 points.22
CalgaryLondon
Score6688
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7493,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3640
Museums & heritage. London leads by 63 points.63
CalgaryLondon
Score972
Museums within 10 km8148
Museums within 2 km of centre349
Share of museums within 2 km %3833
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. London leads by 51 points.51
CalgaryLondon
Score4495
Drinking venues within 4 km4655,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3432,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7446
Nightclubs within 4 km19312
Nature & day trips. London leads by 4 points.4
CalgaryLondon
Score3640
Protected land share 50 km %416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %014
Land share of disc %10097
Park area within 2 km142 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 34 points.34
CalgaryLondon
Score4175
Tourist attractions within 2 km385
Park area within 2 km142 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. London leads by 50 points.50
CalgaryLondon
Score3989
Notable places within 2 km37649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Calgary and London are level on 54.
CalgaryLondon
Score5454
Price level global8484.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. London leads by 6 points.6
CalgaryLondon
Score5763
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months81
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
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). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryLondon
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
OttawaYOW, YND
4 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
1 h 30 m
€77-88
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
1 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
CancunCUN
5 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 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

MeasureCalgaryLondon
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation1,045 m4 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryLondon
City population1,306,7848,799,728
People per km²1,5835,598
Museums within 10 km13215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre67116

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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. 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.