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Ottawa or Pisa?

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, 2 points apart

Ottawa
43
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming 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.

OttawaPisa
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
OttawaPisa
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance423 km10 km
Water distance10 km
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 30 points.30
OttawaPisa
Score6434
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km349
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 23 points.23
OttawaPisa
Score3255
Museums within 10 km1527
Museums within 2 km of centre822
Share of museums within 2 km %5381
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 16 points.16
OttawaPisa
Score4428
Drinking venues within 4 km432232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7088
Nightclubs within 4 km353
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 2 points.2
OttawaPisa
Score4139
Protected land share 50 km %89
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km122 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 1 points.1
OttawaPisa
Score4647
Tourist attractions within 2 km1120
Park area within 2 km122 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 3 points.3
OttawaPisa
Score5047
Notable places within 2 km7158
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 14 points.14
OttawaPisa
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 17 points.17
OttawaPisa
Score5370
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Ottawa
No coastline within reach
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
No sunshine record
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureOttawaPisa
Official languageFrench, EnglishItalian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation70 m4 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaPisa
City population1,017,44988,737
People per km²366479
Museums within 10 km2027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre6229
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.