VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Vancouver?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

HeidelbergVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
HeidelbergVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6109
Coast distance406 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 27 points.27
HeidelbergVancouver
Score4774
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 25 points.25
HeidelbergVancouver
Score5934
Museums within 10 km5427
Museums within 2 km of centre2315
Share of museums within 2 km %4356
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 30 points.30
HeidelbergVancouver
Score2757
Drinking venues within 4 km201848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8471
Nightclubs within 4 km844
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 3 points.3
HeidelbergVancouver
Score7477
Protected land share 50 km %5219
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km20 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 10 points.10
HeidelbergVancouver
Score4353
Tourist attractions within 2 km2915
Park area within 2 km20 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 12 points.12
HeidelbergVancouver
Score3648
Notable places within 2 km3163
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Heidelberg leads by 6 points.6
HeidelbergVancouver
Score6054
Price level global75.984
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Heidelberg leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergVancouver
Score6153
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 69 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 25 m
€628-763
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
€490-632
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
10 h 20 m
€629-762
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 55 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
5 h 20 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHeidelbergVancouver
Official languageGermanFrench, 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
Elevation114 m2 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergVancouver
City population162,960662,248
People per km²1,4965,759
Museums within 10 km1726
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre4585
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.