VacationSelector

Vancouver or York?

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

Your match

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

VancouverYork
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
VancouverYork
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1092
Coast distance1 km50 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 20 points.20
VancouverYork
Score7454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,330361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. York leads by 12 points.12
VancouverYork
Score3446
Museums within 10 km2718
Museums within 2 km of centre1516
Share of museums within 2 km %5689
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 14 points.14
VancouverYork
Score5743
Drinking venues within 4 km848450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre602353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7178
Nightclubs within 4 km4414
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 44 points.44
VancouverYork
Score7733
Protected land share 50 km %1917
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %6095
Park area within 2 km103 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 10 points.10
VancouverYork
Score5343
Tourist attractions within 2 km1513
Park area within 2 km103 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 9 points.9
VancouverYork
Score4839
Notable places within 2 km6337
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vancouver and York are level on 54.
VancouverYork
Score5454
Price level global8484.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. York leads by 3 points.3
VancouverYork
Score5356
Monthly daytime high7.3 °C to 23 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 245 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months01
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVancouverYork
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 40 m
€681-795
YVR · 9 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
CancunCUN
5 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Las VegasLAS
2 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Hong KongHKG
12 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
DublinDUB
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureVancouverYork
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation2 m25 m
Main airportVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureVancouverYork
City population662,248208,400
People per km²5,759766
Museums within 10 km2624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre8554
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. 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. 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.