VacationSelector

Ottawa or Verona?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Verona
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

OttawaVerona
Beaches & swimming. Ottawa and Verona are level on 0.
OttawaVerona
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km92
Coast distance423 km104 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 21 points.21
OttawaVerona
Score6443
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3413
Museums & heritage. Verona leads by 24 points.24
OttawaVerona
Score3256
Museums within 10 km1520
Museums within 2 km of centre819
Share of museums within 2 km %5395
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 4 points.4
OttawaVerona
Score4440
Drinking venues within 4 km432416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7065
Nightclubs within 4 km359
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 5 points.5
OttawaVerona
Score4136
Protected land share 50 km %89
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km122 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Verona leads by 23 points.23
OttawaVerona
Score4669
Tourist attractions within 2 km1162
Park area within 2 km122 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Verona leads by 3 points.3
OttawaVerona
Score5053
Notable places within 2 km7182
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Verona leads by 14 points.14
OttawaVerona
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Verona leads by 12 points.12
OttawaVerona
Score5365
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 mm38 mm to 85 mm
Dry months01
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
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Verona
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
No sunshine record
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaVerona
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 106 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
CancunCUN
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 30 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
Montego BayMBJ
4 h 10 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 10 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

MeasureOttawaVerona
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 m59 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaVerona
City population1,017,449255,588
People per km²3661,285
Museums within 10 km2018
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre6235

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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.