VacationSelector

Ottawa or Vilnius?

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 with your weighting.

Vilnius
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

OttawaVilnius
Beaches & swimming. Ottawa and Vilnius are level on 0.
OttawaVilnius
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km916
Coast distance423 km260 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 4 points.4
OttawaVilnius
Score6460
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684537
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3432
Museums & heritage. Vilnius leads by 39 points.39
OttawaVilnius
Score3271
Museums within 10 km1574
Museums within 2 km of centre854
Share of museums within 2 km %5373
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Vilnius leads by 2 points.2
OttawaVilnius
Score4446
Drinking venues within 4 km432464
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7084
Nightclubs within 4 km3539
Nature & day trips. Ottawa and Vilnius are level on 41.
OttawaVilnius
Score4141
Protected land share 50 km %810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km122 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Vilnius leads by 5 points.5
OttawaVilnius
Score4651
Tourist attractions within 2 km1127
Park area within 2 km122 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Vilnius leads by 15 points.15
OttawaVilnius
Score5065
Notable places within 2 km71161
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vilnius leads by 22 points.22
OttawaVilnius
Score5476
Price level global8453.1
Daily budget—€125
Year-round weather. Ottawa and Vilnius are level on 53.
OttawaVilnius
Score5353
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C-1.5 °C to 24 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 mm41 mm to 90 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
Vilnius
-1
0
4
13
19
22
24
23
18
10
4
0
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Vilnius
48
42
41
41
60
66
90
78
58
58
45
49
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vilnius
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
No sunshine record
Vilnius
1
2
5
7
8
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaVilnius
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 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.

Before you go

MeasureOttawaVilnius
Official languageFrench, EnglishLithuanian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation70 m98 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaVilnius
City population1,017,449581,475
People per km²3661,450
Museums within 10 km2030
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre6254

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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.