VacationSelector

Valencia or Vancouver?

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

Your match

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

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

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

ValenciaVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 7 points.7
ValenciaVancouver
Score6760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km12109
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 4 points.4
ValenciaVancouver
Score7874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9951,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3335
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 21 points.21
ValenciaVancouver
Score5534
Museums within 10 km5927
Museums within 2 km of centre2615
Share of museums within 2 km %4456
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 13 points.13
ValenciaVancouver
Score7057
Drinking venues within 4 km1,513848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre957602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6371
Nightclubs within 4 km10844
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 24 points.24
ValenciaVancouver
Score5377
Protected land share 50 km %1019
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6460
Park area within 2 km119 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 11 points.11
ValenciaVancouver
Score4253
Tourist attractions within 2 km1215
Park area within 2 km119 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 4 points.4
ValenciaVancouver
Score5248
Notable places within 2 km7863
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 17 points.17
ValenciaVancouver
Score7154
Price level global60.884
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 31 points.31
ValenciaVancouver
Score8453
Monthly daytime high16.8 °C to 30.6 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 70 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months80
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
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. Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromValenciaVancouver
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 0 m
€151-206
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
2 h 20 m
€196-284
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
9 h 5 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

MeasureValenciaVancouver
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation15 m2 m
Main airportValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureValenciaVancouver
City population840,792662,248
People per km²6,2425,759
Museums within 10 km4626
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre9285
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.