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Lion's Head above Clifton Beach, Cape Town
Cape TownLion's Head above Clifton Beach
Puente de San Martín over the Tagus, Toledo
ToledoPuente de San Martín over the Tagus

Photos: Cape Town by Stephan Louis, Pexels License; Toledo by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cape Town or Toledo?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Cape Town for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Cape Town’s own page.

Choose Toledo for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Toledo’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Cape Town 58, Toledo 5: Cape Town leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Cape Town 72, Toledo 40: Cape Town leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Cape Town 60, Toledo 79: Toledo leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Cape Town 60, Toledo 22: Cape Town leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cape Town 98, Toledo 40: Cape Town leads by 58 points.
Day trips. Cape Town 68, Toledo 78: Toledo leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Cape Town 58, Toledo 45: Cape Town leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Cape Town 35, Toledo 64: Toledo leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Cape Town 50, Toledo 32: Cape Town leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Cape Town 72, Toledo 58: Cape Town leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cape Town 52, Toledo 22: Cape Town leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cape Town 45, Toledo 30: Cape Town leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cape Town and Toledo.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Cape Town
Best match
61match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Toledo
43match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cape Town in July

18 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
89 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Toledo in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
6 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cape Town: 1991-2020 normals, Cape Town Airport (17.5 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCape TownToledo
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageSpanish
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation5 m523 m
Main airportCape Town International Airport (CPT)18 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCape TownToledo
City population3,776,31387,216
People per km²1,538376
Museums within 10 km2213
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.