VacationSelector

Calgary or Madrid?

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.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife 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.

CalgaryMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Madrid are level on 0.
CalgaryMadrid
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km44
Coast distance649 km305 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 17 points.17
CalgaryMadrid
Score6683
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7493,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3628
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 66 points.66
CalgaryMadrid
Score975
Museums within 10 km897
Museums within 2 km of centre359
Share of museums within 2 km %3861
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 37 points.37
CalgaryMadrid
Score4481
Drinking venues within 4 km4652,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3431,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7462
Nightclubs within 4 km19341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 27 points.27
CalgaryMadrid
Score3663
Protected land share 50 km %419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 36 points.36
CalgaryMadrid
Score4177
Tourist attractions within 2 km361
Park area within 2 km142 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 36 points.36
CalgaryMadrid
Score3975
Notable places within 2 km37288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 17 points.17
CalgaryMadrid
Score5471
Price level global8460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 15 points.15
CalgaryMadrid
Score5772
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months87
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryMadrid
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
11 h 20 m
€861-905
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureCalgaryMadrid
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish
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
Elevation1,045 m663 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryMadrid
City population1,306,7843,506,730
People per km²1,5835,801
Museums within 10 km1388
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre67106

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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.