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Calgary or Zagreb?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Zagreb
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

CalgaryZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Zagreb are level on 0.
CalgaryZagreb
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km48
Coast distance649 km117 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 14 points.14
CalgaryZagreb
Score6652
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3627
Museums & heritage. Zagreb leads by 36 points.36
CalgaryZagreb
Score945
Museums within 10 km841
Museums within 2 km of centre340
Share of museums within 2 km %3898
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Zagreb leads by 17 points.17
CalgaryZagreb
Score4461
Drinking venues within 4 km4651,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7457
Nightclubs within 4 km1963
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 2 points.2
CalgaryZagreb
Score3634
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 13 points.13
CalgaryZagreb
Score4128
Tourist attractions within 2 km37
Park area within 2 km142 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 21 points.21
CalgaryZagreb
Score3960
Notable places within 2 km37122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 26 points.26
CalgaryZagreb
Score5480
Price level global8448.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 5 points.5
CalgaryZagreb
Score5762
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm47 mm to 104 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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Calgary
No sunshine record
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
6
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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryZagreb
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureCalgaryZagreb
Official languageFrench, EnglishCroatian
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 m127 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryZagreb
City population1,306,784767,131
People per km²1,583
Museums within 10 km1327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6742

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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.