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Innsbruck or Ottawa?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Innsbruck
44
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Ottawa
43
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

InnsbruckOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Innsbruck and Ottawa are level on 0.
InnsbruckOttawa
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km109
Coast distance217 km423 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 18 points.18
InnsbruckOttawa
Score4664
Restaurants within 2 km of centre270684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2434
Museums & heritage. Innsbruck leads by 16 points.16
InnsbruckOttawa
Score4832
Museums within 10 km3415
Museums within 2 km of centre218
Share of museums within 2 km %6253
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 10 points.10
InnsbruckOttawa
Score3444
Drinking venues within 4 km271432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre216303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8070
Nightclubs within 4 km1635
Nature & day trips. Innsbruck leads by 19 points.19
InnsbruckOttawa
Score6041
Protected land share 50 km %318
Landscape blanket share 50 km %80
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km38 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 1 points.1
InnsbruckOttawa
Score4546
Tourist attractions within 2 km1811
Park area within 2 km38 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 5 points.5
InnsbruckOttawa
Score4550
Notable places within 2 km5371
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Innsbruck leads by 5 points.5
InnsbruckOttawa
Score5954
Price level global76.984
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Innsbruck leads by 6 points.6
InnsbruckOttawa
Score5953
Monthly daytime high3.9 °C to 25.6 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 144 mm53 mm to 94 mm
Dry months10
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
Innsbruck
4
7
12
16
21
24
26
25
21
16
9
4
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Innsbruck
50
40
59
60
90
119
129
144
89
70
63
59
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Innsbruck
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Innsbruck
3
4
6
6
7
7
8
7
6
5
3
3
Ottawa
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInnsbruckOttawa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 50 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
10 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
4 h 50 m
€175-263
2 stops
YOW · 12 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
10 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 124 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 124 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 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

MeasureInnsbruckOttawa
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation574 m70 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckOttawa
City population132,4991,017,449
People per km²1,263366
Museums within 10 km2720
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4762

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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. 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.