VacationSelector

Ottawa or Turin?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Turin
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife 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.

OttawaTurin
Beaches & swimming. Ottawa and Turin are level on 0.
OttawaTurin
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance423 km105 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ottawa and Turin are level on 64.
OttawaTurin
Score6464
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6841,198
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3421
Museums & heritage. Turin leads by 36 points.36
OttawaTurin
Score3268
Museums within 10 km1565
Museums within 2 km of centre839
Share of museums within 2 km %5360
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Turin leads by 22 points.22
OttawaTurin
Score4466
Drinking venues within 4 km4321,375
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303768
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7056
Nightclubs within 4 km3557
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 8 points.8
OttawaTurin
Score4133
Protected land share 50 km %86
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km122 hectares72 hectares
Good for families. Turin leads by 7 points.7
OttawaTurin
Score4653
Tourist attractions within 2 km1136
Park area within 2 km122 hectares72 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Turin leads by 5 points.5
OttawaTurin
Score5055
Notable places within 2 km7192
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Turin leads by 14 points.14
OttawaTurin
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Turin leads by 11 points.11
OttawaTurin
Score5364
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C7.1 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 mm44 mm to 127 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
Turin
7
9
14
18
21
26
29
28
24
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Turin
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Turin
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9

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). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaTurin
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 103 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
CancunCUN
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
BostonBOS, PSM
1 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
3 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
Montego BayMBJ
4 h 10 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 103 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

MeasureOttawaTurin
Official languageFrench, EnglishItalian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation70 m239 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaTurin
City population1,017,449841,600
People per km²3666,474
Museums within 10 km2072
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre6278

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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.