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Ottawa or Stuttgart?

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 sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Stuttgart
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

OttawaStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Ottawa and Stuttgart are level on 0.
OttawaStuttgart
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km93
Coast distance423 km476 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 5 points.5
OttawaStuttgart
Score6459
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3429
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 24 points.24
OttawaStuttgart
Score3256
Museums within 10 km1565
Museums within 2 km of centre821
Share of museums within 2 km %5332
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Stuttgart leads by 5 points.5
OttawaStuttgart
Score4449
Drinking venues within 4 km432524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7071
Nightclubs within 4 km3553
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 39 points.39
OttawaStuttgart
Score4180
Protected land share 50 km %851
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km122 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 1 points.1
OttawaStuttgart
Score4645
Tourist attractions within 2 km1111
Park area within 2 km122 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 6 points.6
OttawaStuttgart
Score5044
Notable places within 2 km7150
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stuttgart leads by 6 points.6
OttawaStuttgart
Score5460
Price level global8475.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 10 points.10
OttawaStuttgart
Score5363
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 mm33 mm to 79 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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
No sunshine record
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaStuttgart
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 146 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
CancunCUN
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
CalgaryYYC
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
4 h 50 m
€175-263
2 stops
YOW · 12 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
2 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 146 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

MeasureOttawaStuttgart
Official languageFrench, EnglishGerman
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 m245 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaStuttgart
City population1,017,449633,484
People per km²3663,054
Museums within 10 km2042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre6259

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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.