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Ottawa or Strasbourg?

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

Your match

Ottawa
43
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Strasbourg
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

OttawaStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Ottawa and Strasbourg are level on 0.
OttawaStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km99
Coast distance423 km398 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 3 points.3
OttawaStrasbourg
Score6467
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3436
Museums & heritage. Strasbourg leads by 9 points.9
OttawaStrasbourg
Score3241
Museums within 10 km1523
Museums within 2 km of centre814
Share of museums within 2 km %5361
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 8 points.8
OttawaStrasbourg
Score4436
Drinking venues within 4 km432305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7087
Nightclubs within 4 km3517
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 13 points.13
OttawaStrasbourg
Score4154
Protected land share 50 km %837
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km122 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 8 points.8
OttawaStrasbourg
Score4638
Tourist attractions within 2 km119
Park area within 2 km122 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 8 points.8
OttawaStrasbourg
Score5058
Notable places within 2 km71109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 8 points.8
OttawaStrasbourg
Score5462
Price level global8473.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 10 points.10
OttawaStrasbourg
Score5363
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months03
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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
No sunshine record
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaStrasbourg
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
CancunCUN
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
CalgaryYYC
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
4 h 50 m
€175-263
2 stops
YOW · 12 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 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

MeasureOttawaStrasbourg
Official languageFrench, EnglishFrench
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation70 m132 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaStrasbourg
City population1,017,449293,771
People per km²3663,752
Museums within 10 km2021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6287

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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.