VacationSelector

Como or Vancouver?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Como
34
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

ComoVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
ComoVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km8109
Coast distance156 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 49 points.49
ComoVancouver
Score2574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2591,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km735
Museums & heritage. Como leads by 12 points.12
ComoVancouver
Score4634
Museums within 10 km927
Museums within 2 km of centre615
Share of museums within 2 km %6756
Unesco sites within 50 km80
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 33 points.33
ComoVancouver
Score2457
Drinking venues within 4 km213848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre143602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6771
Nightclubs within 4 km144
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 37 points.37
ComoVancouver
Score4077
Protected land share 50 km %2319
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km15 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 38 points.38
ComoVancouver
Score1553
Tourist attractions within 2 km615
Park area within 2 km15 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 18 points.18
ComoVancouver
Score3048
Notable places within 2 km2263
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Como leads by 14 points.14
ComoVancouver
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Como leads by 5 points.5
ComoVancouver
Score5853
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months00
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
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Como
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 43 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 34 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
CancunCUN
11 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 43 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
10 h 40 m
€681-795
YVR · 9 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 2026-08 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

MeasureComoVancouver
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation201 m2 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoVancouver
City population83,184662,248
People per km²2,2425,759
Museums within 10 km926
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km80
Distinct cuisines in the centre2285
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.