VacationSelector

Thessaloniki or Vancouver?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Thessaloniki
59
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

ThessalonikiVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 5 points.5
ThessalonikiVancouver
Score5560
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km4109
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 24 points.24
ThessalonikiVancouver
Score5074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6401,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1535
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 15 points.15
ThessalonikiVancouver
Score4934
Museums within 10 km3427
Museums within 2 km of centre2215
Share of museums within 2 km %6556
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 10 points.10
ThessalonikiVancouver
Score6757
Drinking venues within 4 km1,407848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre805602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5771
Nightclubs within 4 km6144
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 12 points.12
ThessalonikiVancouver
Score6577
Protected land share 50 km %2519
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8360
Park area within 2 km39 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 12 points.12
ThessalonikiVancouver
Score4153
Tourist attractions within 2 km1615
Park area within 2 km39 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 8 points.8
ThessalonikiVancouver
Score5648
Notable places within 2 km9863
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 20 points.20
ThessalonikiVancouver
Score7454
Price level global55.884
Daily budget€125—
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 19 points.19
ThessalonikiVancouver
Score7253
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 32.1 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 56 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months90
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Thessaloniki
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
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3
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. Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromThessalonikiVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
10 h 0 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 2026-08 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

MeasureThessalonikiVancouver
Official languageGreekFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m2 m
Main airportThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureThessalonikiVancouver
City population309,617662,248
People per km²16,0425,759
Museums within 10 km3126
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4585
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.