VacationSelector

Calgary or Los Angeles?

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 value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
CalgaryLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance649 km
Water distance
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Calgary and Los Angeles are level on 66.
CalgaryLos Angeles
Score6666
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7491,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3622
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 40 points.40
CalgaryLos Angeles
Score949
Museums within 10 km869
Museums within 2 km of centre323
Share of museums within 2 km %3833
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 10 points.10
CalgaryLos Angeles
Score4454
Drinking venues within 4 km465660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7465
Nightclubs within 4 km1964
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
CalgaryLos Angeles
Score3662
Protected land share 50 km %426
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km142 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 8 points.8
CalgaryLos Angeles
Score4133
Tourist attractions within 2 km311
Park area within 2 km142 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 15 points.15
CalgaryLos Angeles
Score3954
Notable places within 2 km3788
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryLos Angeles
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 30 points.30
CalgaryLos Angeles
Score5787
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months88
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10

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). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryLos Angeles
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
San FranciscoSFO
2 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
1 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
1 h 30 m
€77-88
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€166-318
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
DenverDEN, APA
2 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
Puerto VallartaPVR
4 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
12 h 0 m
€570-646
LAX · 19 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

MeasureCalgaryLos Angeles
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-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,045 m106 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryLos Angeles
City population1,306,7843,898,747
People per km²1,5832,994
Museums within 10 km1338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6746
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.