VacationSelector

Budapest or Toronto?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BudapestToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
BudapestToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km658
Coast distance10,000 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 5 points.5
BudapestToronto
Score7782
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6992,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3539
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 21 points.21
BudapestToronto
Score6443
Museums within 10 km14435
Museums within 2 km of centre6425
Share of museums within 2 km %4471
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 3 points.3
BudapestToronto
Score7269
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7651,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6664
Nightclubs within 4 km97103
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 14 points.14
BudapestToronto
Score4026
Protected land share 50 km %82
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km111 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 14 points.14
BudapestToronto
Score7157
Tourist attractions within 2 km7523
Park area within 2 km111 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 8 points.8
BudapestToronto
Score6961
Notable places within 2 km206128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 26 points.26
BudapestToronto
Score8054
Price level global4884
Daily budget€104
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 9 points.9
BudapestToronto
Score6455
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
€276-394
2 stops
BUD · 18 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 55 m
€121-132
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestToronto
Official languageHungarianFrench, English
CurrencyForint (HUF)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
Elevation117 m76 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestToronto
City population1,685,2092,794,356
People per km²3,2094,434
Museums within 10 km8132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre86102
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.