VacationSelector

Calgary or Philadelphia?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
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.

CalgaryPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Philadelphia are level on 0.
CalgaryPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance649 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryPhiladelphia
Score6677
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7491,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3635
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 51 points.51
CalgaryPhiladelphia
Score960
Museums within 10 km889
Museums within 2 km of centre348
Share of museums within 2 km %3854
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 15 points.15
CalgaryPhiladelphia
Score4459
Drinking venues within 4 km465930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7462
Nightclubs within 4 km1941
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 13 points.13
CalgaryPhiladelphia
Score3649
Protected land share 50 km %414
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km142 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 12 points.12
CalgaryPhiladelphia
Score4153
Tourist attractions within 2 km316
Park area within 2 km142 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 15 points.15
CalgaryPhiladelphia
Score3954
Notable places within 2 km3788
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryPhiladelphia
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 3 points.3
CalgaryPhiladelphia
Score5760
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryPhiladelphia
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
4 h 0 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
1 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DenverDEN, APA
2 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
Puerto VallartaPVR
4 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
EWR · 117 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

MeasureCalgaryPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryPhiladelphia
City population1,306,7841,603,797
People per km²1,5834,339
Museums within 10 km1354
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6775

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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.