VacationSelector

Ottawa or Thessaloniki?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

OttawaThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
OttawaThessaloniki
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km94
Coast distance423 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 14 points.14
OttawaThessaloniki
Score6450
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3415
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 17 points.17
OttawaThessaloniki
Score3249
Museums within 10 km1534
Museums within 2 km of centre822
Share of museums within 2 km %5365
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 23 points.23
OttawaThessaloniki
Score4467
Drinking venues within 4 km4321,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7057
Nightclubs within 4 km3561
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 24 points.24
OttawaThessaloniki
Score4165
Protected land share 50 km %825
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km122 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 5 points.5
OttawaThessaloniki
Score4641
Tourist attractions within 2 km1116
Park area within 2 km122 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.6
OttawaThessaloniki
Score5056
Notable places within 2 km7198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 20 points.20
OttawaThessaloniki
Score5474
Price level global8455.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 19 points.19
OttawaThessaloniki
Score5372
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Ottawa
No coastline within reach
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
No sunshine record
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaThessaloniki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureOttawaThessaloniki
Official languageFrench, EnglishGreek
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation70 m6 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaThessaloniki
City population1,017,449309,617
People per km²36616,042
Museums within 10 km2031
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6245
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.