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Ottawa or Salzburg?

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, 1 point apart

Ottawa
43
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

OttawaSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Ottawa and Salzburg are level on 0.
OttawaSalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km99
Coast distance423 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 15 points.15
OttawaSalzburg
Score6449
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3423
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 28 points.28
OttawaSalzburg
Score3260
Museums within 10 km1542
Museums within 2 km of centre827
Share of museums within 2 km %5364
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 8 points.8
OttawaSalzburg
Score4436
Drinking venues within 4 km432294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7082
Nightclubs within 4 km3516
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 14 points.14
OttawaSalzburg
Score4127
Protected land share 50 km %86
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km122 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 2 points.2
OttawaSalzburg
Score4648
Tourist attractions within 2 km1117
Park area within 2 km122 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 4 points.4
OttawaSalzburg
Score5046
Notable places within 2 km7154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 5 points.5
OttawaSalzburg
Score5459
Price level global8476.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Salzburg leads by 1 points.1
OttawaSalzburg
Score5354
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 mm47 mm to 168 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
No sunshine record
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaSalzburg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
4 h 50 m
€175-263
2 stops
YOW · 12 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
2 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
BostonBOS, PSM
1 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureOttawaSalzburg
Official languageFrench, EnglishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation70 m424 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaSalzburg
City population1,017,449155,021
People per km²3662,360
Museums within 10 km2038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre6250

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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. 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.