VacationSelector
Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
Puente de San Martín over the Tagus, Toledo
ToledoPuente de San Martín over the Tagus

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Toledo by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Toledo for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • 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. Cardiff 30, Toledo 5: Cardiff leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Toledo 40: Cardiff leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Toledo 79: Toledo leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Toledo 22: Cardiff leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Toledo 40: Cardiff leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Toledo 78: Toledo leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Toledo 45: Cardiff leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Toledo 64: Cardiff leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Toledo 32: Cardiff leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Toledo 58: Toledo leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Toledo 22: Cardiff leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Toledo 30: Toledo leads by 3 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Toledo.

Your match

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

Cardiff
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Toledo
43match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 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

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150JFMAMJJASOND
CardiffToledo

Where the figures come from

Cardiff has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre30 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre239 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Cardiff or Toledo somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.