VacationSelector

Granada or Vancouver?

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

Your match

Granada
53
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

GranadaVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
GranadaVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km0109
Coast distance48 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 7 points.7
GranadaVancouver
Score6774
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8721,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3435
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 14 points.14
GranadaVancouver
Score4834
Museums within 10 km2827
Museums within 2 km of centre2615
Share of museums within 2 km %9356
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 5 points.5
GranadaVancouver
Score5257
Drinking venues within 4 km637848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7871
Nightclubs within 4 km4644
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 14 points.14
GranadaVancouver
Score6377
Protected land share 50 km %2719
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9660
Park area within 2 km46 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 3 points.3
GranadaVancouver
Score5653
Tourist attractions within 2 km6015
Park area within 2 km46 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 4 points.4
GranadaVancouver
Score4448
Notable places within 2 km5063
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 17 points.17
GranadaVancouver
Score7154
Price level global60.884
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 21 points.21
GranadaVancouver
Score7453
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months70
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Granada
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
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. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 35 m
€147-204
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 97 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
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

MeasureGranadaVancouver
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation693 m2 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaVancouver
City population233,975662,248
People per km²2,6595,759
Museums within 10 km1926
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre6285
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.