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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amman or Toronto?

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 Amman for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Toronto for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Toronto’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. Amman 22, Toronto 34: Toronto leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Toronto 50: Amman leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Toronto 62: Toronto leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Toronto 52: Toronto leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Toronto 50: Amman leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Toronto 65: Toronto leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Toronto 34: Amman leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Toronto 33: Amman leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Toronto.

Your match

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

Amman
45match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Toronto
Best match
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanToronto
Official languageArabicFrench, English
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation776 m76 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanToronto
City population4,007,5262,794,356
People per km²2,3854,434
Museums within 10 km832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

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.