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Calgary or Orlando?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Calgary
38
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families 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.

CalgaryOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Orlando are level on 0.
CalgaryOrlando
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance649 km68 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 18 points.18
CalgaryOrlando
Score6648
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3621
Museums & heritage. Calgary leads by 1 points.1
CalgaryOrlando
Score98
Museums within 10 km811
Museums within 2 km of centre32
Share of museums within 2 km %3818
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 3 points.3
CalgaryOrlando
Score4441
Drinking venues within 4 km465344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7463
Nightclubs within 4 km1939
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 8 points.8
CalgaryOrlando
Score3644
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 48 points.48
CalgaryOrlando
Score4189
Tourist attractions within 2 km3
Park area within 2 km142 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km520
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Calgary leads by 23 points.23
CalgaryOrlando
Score3916
Notable places within 2 km3710
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryOrlando
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 17 points.17
CalgaryOrlando
Score5774
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm46 mm to 203 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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
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). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryOrlando
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 55 m
€237-270
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
BostonBOS, PSM
4 h 40 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€176-244
MCO · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
4 h 0 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 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

MeasureCalgaryOrlando
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,045 m34 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryOrlando
City population1,306,784334,854
People per km²1,5831,086
Museums within 10 km1311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6730

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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. 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.