VacationSelector

Calgary or Rotterdam?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming 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.

CalgaryRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
CalgaryRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km422
Coast distance649 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 6 points.6
CalgaryRotterdam
Score6672
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3646
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 51 points.51
CalgaryRotterdam
Score960
Museums within 10 km841
Museums within 2 km of centre320
Share of museums within 2 km %3849
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 5 points.5
CalgaryRotterdam
Score4449
Drinking venues within 4 km465542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km1940
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 6 points.6
CalgaryRotterdam
Score3642
Protected land share 50 km %410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km142 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 21 points.21
CalgaryRotterdam
Score4162
Tourist attractions within 2 km327
Park area within 2 km142 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km58
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 12 points.12
CalgaryRotterdam
Score3951
Notable places within 2 km3774
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
CalgaryRotterdam
Score5458
Price level global8479.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Calgary leads by 1 points.1
CalgaryRotterdam
Score5756
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Rotterdam
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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryRotterdam
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
1 h 30 m
€77-88
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
1 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
EdmontonYEG
55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureCalgaryRotterdam
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 m10 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryRotterdam
City population1,306,784664,311
People per km²1,5832,080
Museums within 10 km1340
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre6777
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.