VacationSelector

Ottawa or Venice?

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 and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

OttawaVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
OttawaVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km920
Coast distance423 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 19 points.19
OttawaVenice
Score6445
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3410
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 40 points.40
OttawaVenice
Score3272
Museums within 10 km1557
Museums within 2 km of centre845
Share of museums within 2 km %5379
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 9 points.9
OttawaVenice
Score4435
Drinking venues within 4 km432342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7089
Nightclubs within 4 km353
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 24 points.24
OttawaVenice
Score4117
Protected land share 50 km %84
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km122 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 11 points.11
OttawaVenice
Score4657
Tourist attractions within 2 km1172
Park area within 2 km122 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 33 points.33
OttawaVenice
Score5083
Notable places within 2 km71464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 14 points.14
OttawaVenice
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 13 points.13
OttawaVenice
Score5366
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Ottawa
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 30 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
Montego BayMBJ
4 h 10 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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

MeasureOttawaVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaVenice
City population1,017,449250,369
People per km²366602
Museums within 10 km2052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre6246
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.