VacationSelector

Cologne or Toledo?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

CologneToledo
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Toledo are level on 0.
CologneToledo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km401
Coast distance256 km320 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 48 points.48
CologneToledo
Score7224
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km357
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 14 points.14
CologneToledo
Score6046
Museums within 10 km4719
Museums within 2 km of centre2719
Share of museums within 2 km %57100
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 47 points.47
CologneToledo
Score6417
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6696
Nightclubs within 4 km905
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 43 points.43
CologneToledo
Score7128
Protected land share 50 km %534
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 18 points.18
CologneToledo
Score7254
Tourist attractions within 2 km4332
Park area within 2 km118 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km61
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 7 points.7
CologneToledo
Score5346
Notable places within 2 km8155
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 11 points.11
CologneToledo
Score6071
Price level global75.960.8
Daily budget€163€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 14 points.14
CologneToledo
Score6074
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneToledo
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 80 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 25 m
€193-236
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 50 m
€109-153
MAD · 80 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€81-121
CGN · 15 km
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
DohaDOH
6 h 15 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
6 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCologneToledo
Official languageGermanSpanish
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
Elevation59 m523 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneToledo
City population1,024,62187,216
People per km²2,530376
Museums within 10 km4013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre8413

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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). 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.