VacationSelector

Cardiff or Toledo?

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

Your match

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
match

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

Toledo
40
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

CardiffToledo
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
CardiffToledo
Score460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km81
Coast distance2 km320 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 36 points.36
CardiffToledo
Score6024
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km327
Museums & heritage. Toledo leads by 7 points.7
CardiffToledo
Score3946
Museums within 10 km6119
Museums within 2 km of centre619
Share of museums within 2 km %10100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 31 points.31
CardiffToledo
Score4817
Drinking venues within 4 km536120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7496
Nightclubs within 4 km355
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 22 points.22
CardiffToledo
Score5028
Protected land share 50 km %184
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Toledo leads by 22 points.22
CardiffToledo
Score3254
Tourist attractions within 2 km432
Park area within 2 km88 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Toledo leads by 1 points.1
CardiffToledo
Score4546
Notable places within 2 km5155
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 17 points.17
CardiffToledo
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 20 points.20
CardiffToledo
Score5474
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months011
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffToledo
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 80 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 45 m
€77-197
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
2 h 50 m
€109-153
MAD · 80 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 80 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
7 h 50 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureCardiffToledo
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m523 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffToledo
City population383,53687,216
People per km²2,734376
Museums within 10 km913
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5513
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. 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.