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Parliament Hill across the Ottawa River, Ottawa
OttawaParliament Hill across the Ottawa River
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Ottawa by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Ottawa or Park City?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Ottawa for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Ottawa’s own page.

Choose Park City for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Park City’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Ottawa 35, Park City 8: Ottawa leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Ottawa 45, Park City 40: Ottawa leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Ottawa 62, Park City 18: Ottawa leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Ottawa 35, Park City 25: Ottawa leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ottawa 68, Park City 92: Park City leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Ottawa 55, Park City 40: Ottawa leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Ottawa and Park City are level on 68.
Getting around. Ottawa 62, Park City 60: Ottawa leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Ottawa 40, Park City 35: Ottawa leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Ottawa 40, Park City 12: Ottawa leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ottawa 52, Park City 28: Ottawa leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ottawa 55, Park City 52: Ottawa leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ottawa and Park City.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Ottawa
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Park City
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Ottawa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Park City in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Park City's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Park City has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOttawaPark City
Official languageFrench, English-
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation70 m2,134 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaPark City
City population1,017,4498,396
People per km²366185
Museums within 10 km201
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.