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Calgary or Salzburg?

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 places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Salzburg
✓ Best match
42
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.

CalgarySalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Salzburg are level on 0.
CalgarySalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km49
Coast distance649 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 17 points.17
CalgarySalzburg
Score6649
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3623
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 51 points.51
CalgarySalzburg
Score960
Museums within 10 km842
Museums within 2 km of centre327
Share of museums within 2 km %3864
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 8 points.8
CalgarySalzburg
Score4436
Drinking venues within 4 km465294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7482
Nightclubs within 4 km1916
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 9 points.9
CalgarySalzburg
Score3627
Protected land share 50 km %46
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 7 points.7
CalgarySalzburg
Score4148
Tourist attractions within 2 km317
Park area within 2 km142 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Salzburg leads by 7 points.7
CalgarySalzburg
Score3946
Notable places within 2 km3754
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 5 points.5
CalgarySalzburg
Score5459
Price level global8476.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Calgary leads by 3 points.3
CalgarySalzburg
Score5754
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgarySalzburg
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
1 h 30 m
€77-88
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureCalgarySalzburg
Official languageFrench, EnglishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m424 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgarySalzburg
City population1,306,784155,021
People per km²1,5832,360
Museums within 10 km1338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6750

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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.