VacationSelector

Calgary or Tampa?

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 sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Tampa
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
CalgaryTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km410
Coast distance649 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 12 points.12
CalgaryTampa
Score6654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3631
Museums & heritage. Tampa leads by 18 points.18
CalgaryTampa
Score927
Museums within 10 km813
Museums within 2 km of centre310
Share of museums within 2 km %3877
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 5 points.5
CalgaryTampa
Score4439
Drinking venues within 4 km465324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km1926
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 6 points.6
CalgaryTampa
Score3630
Protected land share 50 km %46
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km142 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryTampa
Score4130
Tourist attractions within 2 km33
Park area within 2 km142 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km55
Sights concentration. Calgary leads by 18 points.18
CalgaryTampa
Score3921
Notable places within 2 km3713
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryTampa
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 18 points.18
CalgaryTampa
Score5775
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months81
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryTampa
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
OttawaYOW, YND
4 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
1 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 55 m
€237-270
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 0 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureCalgaryTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryTampa
City population1,306,784384,959
People per km²1,583848
Museums within 10 km136
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6747
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months

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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. 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.