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Calgary or Maastricht?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Maastricht
✓ Best match
41
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.

CalgaryMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Maastricht are level on 0.
CalgaryMaastricht
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km46
Coast distance649 km118 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 18 points.18
CalgaryMaastricht
Score6648
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3622
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 44 points.44
CalgaryMaastricht
Score953
Museums within 10 km823
Museums within 2 km of centre313
Share of museums within 2 km %3857
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 14 points.14
CalgaryMaastricht
Score4430
Drinking venues within 4 km465223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7482
Nightclubs within 4 km1913
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 1 points.1
CalgaryMaastricht
Score3637
Protected land share 50 km %419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 5 points.5
CalgaryMaastricht
Score4146
Tourist attractions within 2 km315
Park area within 2 km142 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km55
Sights concentration. Calgary leads by 3 points.3
CalgaryMaastricht
Score3936
Notable places within 2 km3732
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 4 points.4
CalgaryMaastricht
Score5458
Price level global8479.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 2 points.2
CalgaryMaastricht
Score5759
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryMaastricht
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 85 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 85 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

MeasureCalgaryMaastricht
Official languageFrench, EnglishDutch
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 911
Elevation1,045 m49 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryMaastricht
City population1,306,784120,227
People per km²1,5832,000
Museums within 10 km1321
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre6733

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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.