VacationSelector

Paris or Vancouver?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Vancouver
57
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.

ParisVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
ParisVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2109
Coast distance149 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 16 points.16
ParisVancouver
Score9074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,7321,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3335
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 42 points.42
ParisVancouver
Score7634
Museums within 10 km18527
Museums within 2 km of centre6515
Share of museums within 2 km %3556
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Paris leads by 31 points.31
ParisVancouver
Score8857
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4571
Nightclubs within 4 km20144
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 29 points.29
ParisVancouver
Score4877
Protected land share 50 km %2819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km82 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 22 points.22
ParisVancouver
Score7553
Tourist attractions within 2 km8915
Park area within 2 km82 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 46 points.46
ParisVancouver
Score9448
Notable places within 2 km86563
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 8 points.8
ParisVancouver
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 13 points.13
ParisVancouver
Score6653
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months10
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
No sunshine record
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisVancouver
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 25 m
€687-789
CDG · 22 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€444-536
CDG · 22 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€445-510
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€122-134
CDG · 22 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
€555-767
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 15 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 30 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
YVR · 9 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 2026-09 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

MeasureParisVancouver
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation27 m2 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisVancouver
City population2,103,778662,248
People per km²19,9605,759
Museums within 10 km25126
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre16985
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.