VacationSelector

Calgary or Milan?

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.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
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.

CalgaryMilan
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Milan are level on 0.
CalgaryMilan
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km44
Coast distance649 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Milan leads by 4 points.4
CalgaryMilan
Score6670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7491,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3620
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 65 points.65
CalgaryMilan
Score974
Museums within 10 km887
Museums within 2 km of centre355
Share of museums within 2 km %3863
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Milan leads by 31 points.31
CalgaryMilan
Score4475
Drinking venues within 4 km4652,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7443
Nightclubs within 4 km1970
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 29 points.29
CalgaryMilan
Score3665
Protected land share 50 km %430
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 36 points.36
CalgaryMilan
Score4177
Tourist attractions within 2 km376
Park area within 2 km142 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km55
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 35 points.35
CalgaryMilan
Score3974
Notable places within 2 km37266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 14 points.14
CalgaryMilan
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 7 points.7
CalgaryMilan
Score5764
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
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). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryMilan
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 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

MeasureCalgaryMilan
Official languageFrench, EnglishItalian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m138 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryMilan
City population1,306,7841,354,196
People per km²1,5837,453
Museums within 10 km1387
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre6779

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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.