VacationSelector

Maastricht or Vancouver?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

MaastrichtVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
MaastrichtVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6109
Coast distance118 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 26 points.26
MaastrichtVancouver
Score4874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3381,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2235
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 19 points.19
MaastrichtVancouver
Score5334
Museums within 10 km2327
Museums within 2 km of centre1315
Share of museums within 2 km %5756
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 27 points.27
MaastrichtVancouver
Score3057
Drinking venues within 4 km223848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8271
Nightclubs within 4 km1344
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 40 points.40
MaastrichtVancouver
Score3777
Protected land share 50 km %1919
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km33 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 7 points.7
MaastrichtVancouver
Score4653
Tourist attractions within 2 km1515
Park area within 2 km33 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 12 points.12
MaastrichtVancouver
Score3648
Notable places within 2 km3263
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 4 points.4
MaastrichtVancouver
Score5854
Price level global79.284
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 6 points.6
MaastrichtVancouver
Score5953
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtVancouver
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
10 h 40 m
€681-795
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 85 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 85 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 40 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
4 h 55 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

MeasureMaastrichtVancouver
Official languageDutchFrench, 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 number112 or 911911
Elevation49 m2 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtVancouver
City population120,227662,248
People per km²2,0005,759
Museums within 10 km2126
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre3385
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.