VacationSelector

Calgary or Venice?

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.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
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.

CalgaryVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
CalgaryVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km420
Coast distance649 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 21 points.21
CalgaryVenice
Score6645
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3610
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 63 points.63
CalgaryVenice
Score972
Museums within 10 km857
Museums within 2 km of centre345
Share of museums within 2 km %3879
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 9 points.9
CalgaryVenice
Score4435
Drinking venues within 4 km465342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7489
Nightclubs within 4 km193
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 19 points.19
CalgaryVenice
Score3617
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km142 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 16 points.16
CalgaryVenice
Score4157
Tourist attractions within 2 km372
Park area within 2 km142 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 44 points.44
CalgaryVenice
Score3983
Notable places within 2 km37464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 14 points.14
CalgaryVenice
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 9 points.9
CalgaryVenice
Score5766
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months82
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
5 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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

MeasureCalgaryVenice
Official languageFrench, EnglishItalian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m2 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryVenice
City population1,306,784250,369
People per km²1,583602
Museums within 10 km1352
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre6746
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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.