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Any two Calgary casinos compared
Checked October 8, 2026By the Map Room
Pick any two of the nine casinos to see the straight-line distance between them and both sets of hours side by side. Nine casinos make 36 possible pairs, from 0.5 km apart in a straight line to 74.2 km.
Choose two casinos, one in each picker below.
Pick two casinos
Elbow River Casino
Casino: Daily 9:30 AM to 3 AM
Tables: not published separately
Poker: Sun to Wed 10 AM to 3 AM; Thu to Sat 24 hours
CowboysElbow Riverpublished two ways
The distance is a straight line between map points, not a road; hours are as published, and holiday hours should be checked on each venue's own site.
How to read a pair
The number between two casinos is measured from one map point to another, in a straight line. Each casino has a single point taken from OpenStreetMap, either its building outline or its casino node, and each casino page links that point. The figure says nothing about driving or transit time.
Roads are longer than the line. Rivers, rail lines and ring roads decide how much longer, and the guide knows nothing about road layouts, traffic or parking queues. A map is honest about distance and silent about almost everything else.
Hours appear side by side in Calgary time, so the overlap shows when both casinos are open at once. The open-now marks are worked out in the reader's browser. Holiday hours are not covered and should be checked on each venue's own site.
Pairs worth knowing
Cowboys Casino and Elbow River Casino are 0.5 km apart in a straight line. No other pair on this map stands closer.
On the north side, ACE Casino Airport and Century Downs are 7.8 km apart in a straight line, and this site calls them the north pair. Across the eight casinos east of the mountains, the widest straight-line gap is 28.0 km, between Deerfoot Inn & Casino and Century Downs.
Stoney Nakoda Resort & Casino stands apart in the foothills. It is 74.2 km from Deerfoot Inn & Casino in a straight line, the farthest of its eight neighbours, and 61.6 km from Grey Eagle Resort & Casino, the nearest.
Questions
Why is the road longer than the number?
The number is a straight line between two map points, computed with the haversine formula. Roads bend around whatever lies in the way. The guide holds no road, traffic or transit data, so it gives no drive times.
Are the hours current?
Venue facts were checked on October 8, 2026. Hours are kept as weekly ranges in Calgary time. Holiday hours are not covered, so check them on the venue's own site.
What if a casino shows no table hours?
Some casinos publish no separate table-game hours, and Century Downs has no live table games at all. Where a casino's own pages give two versions of a figure, the guide leaves it out. ACE Casino Airport, for example, publishes its Sunday hours two ways, so neither appears.
Every pair at once
| From | Cowboys | Elbow River | ACE Blackfoot | PURE Calgary | Deerfoot Inn | Grey Eagle | ACE Airport | Century Downs | Stoney Nakoda |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cowboys | · | 0.5 | 2.5 | 4.8 | 11.3 | 7.4 | 11.0 | 18.6 | 67.5 |
| Elbow River | 0.5 | · | 2.3 | 5.3 | 11.2 | 6.9 | 11.4 | 19.1 | 67.1 |
| ACE Blackfoot | 2.5 | 2.3 | · | 6.2 | 9.0 | 7.1 | 13.4 | 20.8 | 68.3 |
| PURE Calgary | 4.8 | 5.3 | 6.2 | · | 12.9 | 12.2 | 8.5 | 15.2 | 71.2 |
| Deerfoot Inn | 11.3 | 11.2 | 9.0 | 12.9 | · | 13.2 | 21.3 | 28.0 | 74.2 |
| Grey Eagle | 7.4 | 6.9 | 7.1 | 12.2 | 13.2 | · | 16.7 | 24.5 | 61.6 |
| ACE Airport | 11.0 | 11.4 | 13.4 | 8.5 | 21.3 | 16.7 | · | 7.8 | 68.8 |
| Century Downs | 18.6 | 19.1 | 20.8 | 15.2 | 28.0 | 24.5 | 7.8 | · | 73.0 |
| Stoney Nakoda | 67.5 | 67.1 | 68.3 | 71.2 | 74.2 | 61.6 | 68.8 | 73.0 | · |