VacationSelector

Barcelona or Toronto?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

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

Toronto
54
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BarcelonaToronto
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 22 points.22
BarcelonaToronto
Score6543
Swim season months31
Beaches 10 km2058
Coast distance2 km533 km
Water distance2 km5 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 8 points.8
BarcelonaToronto
Score9082
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,7862,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4139
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 25 points.25
BarcelonaToronto
Score6843
Museums within 10 km10535
Museums within 2 km of centre4925
Share of museums within 2 km %4771
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 13 points.13
BarcelonaToronto
Score8269
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7111,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6164
Nightclubs within 4 km245103
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 24 points.24
BarcelonaToronto
Score5026
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 8 points.8
BarcelonaToronto
Score6557
Tourist attractions within 2 km6023
Park area within 2 km49 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 12 points.12
BarcelonaToronto
Score7361
Notable places within 2 km258128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 17 points.17
BarcelonaToronto
Score7154
Price level global60.884
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 23 points.23
BarcelonaToronto
Score7855
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months50
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€46-94
BCN · 13 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 55 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
4 h 10 m
€500-667
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
11 h 0 m
no fares
BCN · 13 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

MeasureBarcelonaToronto
Official languageSpanishFrench, 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 number112911
Elevation9 m76 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaToronto
City population1,731,6492,794,356
People per km²17,0944,434
Museums within 10 km9532
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre128102
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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.