VacationSelector

Ottawa or Stockholm?

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

Your match

Ottawa
43
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

OttawaStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
OttawaStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km973
Coast distance423 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 12 points.12
OttawaStockholm
Score6476
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6841,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3436
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 37 points.37
OttawaStockholm
Score3269
Museums within 10 km1574
Museums within 2 km of centre847
Share of museums within 2 km %5364
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 20 points.20
OttawaStockholm
Score4464
Drinking venues within 4 km4321,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7063
Nightclubs within 4 km35106
Nature & day trips. Ottawa and Stockholm are level on 41.
OttawaStockholm
Score4141
Protected land share 50 km %87
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km122 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 11 points.11
OttawaStockholm
Score4657
Tourist attractions within 2 km1123
Park area within 2 km122 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 29 points.29
OttawaStockholm
Score5079
Notable places within 2 km71357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
OttawaStockholm
Score5457
Price level global8480.3
Daily budget—€169
Year-round weather. Ottawa and Stockholm are level on 53.
OttawaStockholm
Score5353
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months05
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Ottawa
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
No sunshine record
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasureOttawaStockholm
Official languageFrench, EnglishSwedish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation70 m22 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaStockholm
City population1,017,449984,748
People per km²3665,260
Museums within 10 km20266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre6281
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.