VacationSelector

Cadiz or Toledo?

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

Your match

Cadiz
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Cadiz if the sea matters: 29 beaches nearby and three months of swimmable water, plus a wider range of places to eat and more to drink after dark.

Choose Toledo if you want a compact walking trip, with about twice as many notable places within walking distance of the centre and two UNESCO-listed sites within day-trip reach.

Scoreboard

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

CadizToledo
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 70 points.70
CadizToledo
Score700
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km291
Coast distance0 km320 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Cadiz leads by 20 points.20
CadizToledo
Score4424
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km187
Museums & heritage. Toledo leads by 10 points.10
CadizToledo
Score3646
Museums within 10 km2319
Museums within 2 km of centre1619
Share of museums within 2 km %70100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Cadiz leads by 13 points.13
CadizToledo
Score3017
Drinking venues within 4 km241120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7396
Nightclubs within 4 km65
Nature & day trips. Toledo leads by 2 points.2
CadizToledo
Score2628
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km24 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Cadiz and Toledo are level on 54.
CadizToledo
Score5454
Tourist attractions within 2 km8032
Park area within 2 km24 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Toledo leads by 15 points.15
CadizToledo
Score3146
Notable places within 2 km2355
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz and Toledo are level on 71.
CadizToledo
Score7171
Price level global60.860.8
Daily budget€122€122
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 9 points.9
CadizToledo
Score8374
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months511
0255075100

Where they differ

Cadiz is the coastal trip: 29 beaches nearby against Toledo's 1, and sea at 21°C or more for three months of the year. It also has somewhat more restaurants near the centre and a much wider range of kitchens, and about twice as many places to drink.

Toledo is the denser walk, with about twice as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, two UNESCO-listed sites within day-trip reach and more park space near the centre.

Where they are alike

For families the two arrive at the same place by different routes: Cadiz has about three times as many tourist attractions near the centre, while Toledo counters with more park space and one theme park within reach.

Day trips look similar too, with 4% of the land around both protected. Heritage is close as well: Cadiz has somewhat more museums, Toledo the two UNESCO-listed sites within reach, so neither leaves you short of indoor days.

Which traveller are you?

Swimmers and beach families should take Cadiz, which has 29 beaches nearby, sea up to 23°C in August and about three times as many tourist attractions near the centre.

Anyone who wants heritage on foot should take Toledo: about twice as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, and two UNESCO-listed sites within day-trip reach to fill a second and third day.

Travellers who plan their days around eating and evenings out should take Cadiz, with a much wider range of kitchens and about twice as many places to drink, most of them near the centre.

What the numbers don't tell you

Value here is a national price level, identical for both by construction, so the value comparison between these two cities carries no information. The €122 daily budget beside it is one national estimate rather than a measurement of Cadiz or Toledo, and neither can be called the cheaper trip.

Cadiz's beach advantage also hides a narrow window: the sea is warm enough for only three months, and the mildness that makes its year look even is concentrated in its wettest stretch, 73-89mm from October to December. Toledo's warmth cuts the other way, at 35°C in July and August.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Cadiz peaks from June to September, with highs of 26-28°C, sea at 21-23°C and almost no rain in July and August, under 6mm. Its autumn turns wet, with 76-89mm in October and November.

Toledo is better in May and September, at 25°C and 29°C with 21-39mm of rain. July and August reach 35°C, which is a lot for a walking trip, and January highs sit at 12°C. Toledo also stays drier across the year, with eleven months at 40mm of rain or less.

Getting there

Flying fromCadizToledo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 0 m
€109-114
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 80 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 80 km
Santiago De CompostelaSCQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 80 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 80 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

MeasureCadizToledo
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m523 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizToledo
City population109,95087,216
People per km²9,087376
Museums within 10 km1113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2813
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months–

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.