VacationSelector

London or Vancouver?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Vancouver
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.

LondonVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
LondonVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km47109
Coast distance43 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. London leads by 14 points.14
LondonVancouver
Score8874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3171,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4035
Museums & heritage. London leads by 38 points.38
LondonVancouver
Score7234
Museums within 10 km14827
Museums within 2 km of centre4915
Share of museums within 2 km %3356
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. London leads by 38 points.38
LondonVancouver
Score9557
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4671
Nightclubs within 4 km31244
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 37 points.37
LondonVancouver
Score4077
Protected land share 50 km %1619
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9760
Park area within 2 km84 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 22 points.22
LondonVancouver
Score7553
Tourist attractions within 2 km8515
Park area within 2 km84 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. London leads by 41 points.41
LondonVancouver
Score8948
Notable places within 2 km64963
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. London and Vancouver are level on 54.
LondonVancouver
Score5454
Price level global84.984
Daily budget
Year-round weather. London leads by 10 points.10
LondonVancouver
Score6353
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm42 mm to 245 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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonVancouver
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
CancunCUN
10 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
CalgaryYYC
8 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 30 m
€73-86
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
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

MeasureLondonVancouver
Official languageEnglishFrench, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation4 m2 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonVancouver
City population8,799,728662,248
People per km²5,5985,759
Museums within 10 km21526
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre11685
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.