VacationSelector

Vancouver or Venice?

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, level with your weighting

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

VancouverVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 9 points.9
VancouverVenice
Score6069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km10920
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 29 points.29
VancouverVenice
Score7445
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,330750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3510
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 38 points.38
VancouverVenice
Score3472
Museums within 10 km2757
Museums within 2 km of centre1545
Share of museums within 2 km %5679
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 22 points.22
VancouverVenice
Score5735
Drinking venues within 4 km848342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre602306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7189
Nightclubs within 4 km443
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
VancouverVenice
Score7717
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6070
Park area within 2 km103 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 4 points.4
VancouverVenice
Score5357
Tourist attractions within 2 km1572
Park area within 2 km103 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 35 points.35
VancouverVenice
Score4883
Notable places within 2 km63464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 14 points.14
VancouverVenice
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 13 points.13
VancouverVenice
Score5366
Monthly daytime high7.3 °C to 23 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 245 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVancouverVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
5 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 40 m
€681-795
YVR · 9 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

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 centre99 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre8546
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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). 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. 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.