VacationSelector

Calgary or Lyon?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

CalgaryLyon
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Lyon are level on 0.
CalgaryLyon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km426
Coast distance649 km253 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 13 points.13
CalgaryLyon
Score6679
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7491,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3640
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 46 points.46
CalgaryLyon
Score955
Museums within 10 km853
Museums within 2 km of centre325
Share of museums within 2 km %3847
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 14 points.14
CalgaryLyon
Score4458
Drinking venues within 4 km465866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7471
Nightclubs within 4 km1947
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 3 points.3
CalgaryLyon
Score3633
Protected land share 50 km %46
Landscape blanket share 50 km %06
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 18 points.18
CalgaryLyon
Score4159
Tourist attractions within 2 km325
Park area within 2 km142 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 15 points.15
CalgaryLyon
Score3954
Notable places within 2 km3786
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 8 points.8
CalgaryLyon
Score5462
Price level global8473.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 7 points.7
CalgaryLyon
Score5764
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
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). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€79-99
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
GVA · 111 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

MeasureCalgaryLyon
Official languageFrench, EnglishFrench
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m160 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryLyon
City population1,306,784519,127
People per km²1,58310,838
Museums within 10 km1342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre67148

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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.