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Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Vancouver or Venice?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Vancouver for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’s own page.

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Vancouver 42, Venice 56: Venice leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Vancouver 72, Venice 60: Vancouver leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Vancouver 42, Venice 94: Venice leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Vancouver 42, Venice 27: Vancouver leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Vancouver 97, Venice 45: Vancouver leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Vancouver 45, Venice 86: Venice leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Vancouver 72, Venice 45: Vancouver leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Vancouver 73, Venice 68: Vancouver leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Vancouver 55, Venice 57: Venice leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Vancouver 27, Venice 20: Vancouver leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Vancouver 52, Venice 62: Venice leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Vancouver 50, Venice 40: Vancouver leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Vancouver and Venice.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Vancouver
56match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

Venice
55match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Venice has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureVancouverVenice
Official languageFrench, EnglishItalian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m2 m
Main airportVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureVancouverVenice
City population662,248250,369
People per km²5,759602
Museums within 10 km2652
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.