VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Toronto?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AmsterdamToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 3 points.3
AmsterdamToronto
Score4043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km3358
Coast distance24 km533 km
Water distance24 km5 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 1 points.1
AmsterdamToronto
Score8382
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9572,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4439
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 37 points.37
AmsterdamToronto
Score8043
Museums within 10 km9835
Museums within 2 km of centre6925
Share of museums within 2 km %7071
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 1 points.1
AmsterdamToronto
Score7069
Drinking venues within 4 km1,5431,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7064
Nightclubs within 4 km114103
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 34 points.34
AmsterdamToronto
Score6026
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 11 points.11
AmsterdamToronto
Score6857
Tourist attractions within 2 km7423
Park area within 2 km49 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 7 points.7
AmsterdamToronto
Score6861
Notable places within 2 km196128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Amsterdam leads by 4 points.4
AmsterdamToronto
Score5854
Price level global79.284
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. Amsterdam leads by 2 points.2
AmsterdamToronto
Score5755
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 12 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€188-239
AMS · 12 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
4 h 10 m
€500-667
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureAmsterdamToronto
Official languageDutchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911911
Elevation-2 m76 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamToronto
City population921,4682,794,356
People per km²4,2084,434
Museums within 10 km10132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre98102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. 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.