VacationSelector

Calgary or York?

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.

York
✓ Best match
41
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.

CalgaryYork
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and York are level on 0.
CalgaryYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km42
Coast distance649 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 12 points.12
CalgaryYork
Score6654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3631
Museums & heritage. York leads by 37 points.37
CalgaryYork
Score946
Museums within 10 km818
Museums within 2 km of centre316
Share of museums within 2 km %3889
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 1 points.1
CalgaryYork
Score4443
Drinking venues within 4 km465450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7478
Nightclubs within 4 km1914
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 3 points.3
CalgaryYork
Score3633
Protected land share 50 km %417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km142 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 2 points.2
CalgaryYork
Score4143
Tourist attractions within 2 km313
Park area within 2 km142 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Calgary and York are level on 39.
CalgaryYork
Score3939
Notable places within 2 km3737
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Calgary and York are level on 54.
CalgaryYork
Score5454
Price level global8484.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Calgary leads by 1 points.1
CalgaryYork
Score5756
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm39 mm to 66 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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryYork
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureCalgaryYork
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation1,045 m25 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryYork
City population1,306,784208,400
People per km²1,583766
Museums within 10 km1324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6754

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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.