VacationSelector

Bangkok or Toronto?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and 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.

BangkokToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 3 points.3
BangkokToronto
Score4043
Swim season months121
Beaches 10 km058
Coast distance23 km533 km
Water distance23 km5 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 1 points.1
BangkokToronto
Score8382
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9572,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2639
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 3 points.3
BangkokToronto
Score4643
Museums within 10 km10335
Museums within 2 km of centre3025
Share of museums within 2 km %2971
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 14 points.14
BangkokToronto
Score8369
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3831,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4164
Nightclubs within 4 km72103
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokToronto
Score5126
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km42 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok and Toronto are level on 57.
BangkokToronto
Score5757
Tourist attractions within 2 km3123
Park area within 2 km42 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 13 points.13
BangkokToronto
Score4861
Notable places within 2 km62128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 39 points.39
BangkokToronto
Score9354
Price level global29.784
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Bangkok leads by 1 points.1
BangkokToronto
Score5655
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokToronto
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
GuangzhouCAN
2 h 40 m
€144-163
BKK · 26 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
New DelhiDEL
4 h 10 m
€267-290
BKK · 26 km
14 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
14 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
4 h 35 m
€232-264
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
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

MeasureBangkokToronto
Official languageThaiFrench, English
CurrencyBaht (THB)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m76 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokToronto
City population5,676,6482,794,356
People per km²3,6194,434
Museums within 10 km5932
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre91102
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months1 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.