VacationSelector

Philadelphia or Vancouver?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
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.

PhiladelphiaVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
PhiladelphiaVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1109
Coast distance13 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 3 points.3
PhiladelphiaVancouver
Score7774
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7141,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3535
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 26 points.26
PhiladelphiaVancouver
Score6034
Museums within 10 km8927
Museums within 2 km of centre4815
Share of museums within 2 km %5456
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 2 points.2
PhiladelphiaVancouver
Score5957
Drinking venues within 4 km930848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6271
Nightclubs within 4 km4144
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 28 points.28
PhiladelphiaVancouver
Score4977
Protected land share 50 km %1419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8960
Park area within 2 km75 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia and Vancouver are level on 53.
PhiladelphiaVancouver
Score5353
Tourist attractions within 2 km1615
Park area within 2 km75 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 6 points.6
PhiladelphiaVancouver
Score5448
Notable places within 2 km8863
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vancouver leads by 11 points.11
PhiladelphiaVancouver
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 7 points.7
PhiladelphiaVancouver
Score6053
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 mm42 mm to 245 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaVancouver
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
3 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
1 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
4 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
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 2026-08 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaVancouver
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation12 m2 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaVancouver
City population1,603,797662,248
People per km²4,3395,759
Museums within 10 km5426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7585
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). 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. 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.