VacationSelector

Interlaken or Ottawa?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Ottawa
✓ Best match
43
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

InterlakenOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Interlaken and Ottawa are level on 0.
InterlakenOttawa
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km129
Coast distance713 km423 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 35 points.35
InterlakenOttawa
Score2964
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1734
Museums & heritage. Ottawa leads by 9 points.9
InterlakenOttawa
Score2332
Museums within 10 km515
Museums within 2 km of centre28
Share of museums within 2 km %4053
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 40 points.40
InterlakenOttawa
Score444
Drinking venues within 4 km42432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9070
Nightclubs within 4 km335
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 14 points.14
InterlakenOttawa
Score2741
Protected land share 50 km %198
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km5 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 32 points.32
InterlakenOttawa
Score1446
Tourist attractions within 2 km1111
Park area within 2 km5 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 28 points.28
InterlakenOttawa
Score2250
Notable places within 2 km1471
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ottawa leads by 19 points.19
InterlakenOttawa
Score3554
Price level global110.584
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 4 points.4
InterlakenOttawa
Score5753
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm53 mm to 94 mm
Dry months30
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenOttawa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
CancunCUN
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
CalgaryYYC
9 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
10 h 25 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 50 m
€175-263
2 stops
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

MeasureInterlakenOttawa
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshFrench, English
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation571 m70 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenOttawa
City population6,1231,017,449
People per km²1,424366
Museums within 10 km320
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2262

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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). 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. 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.