VacationSelector

Cologne or Toronto?

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 nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

CologneToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
CologneToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km4058
Coast distance256 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 10 points.10
CologneToronto
Score7282
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1422,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3539
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 17 points.17
CologneToronto
Score6043
Museums within 10 km4735
Museums within 2 km of centre2725
Share of museums within 2 km %5771
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 5 points.5
CologneToronto
Score6469
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1071,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6664
Nightclubs within 4 km90103
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 45 points.45
CologneToronto
Score7126
Protected land share 50 km %532
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 15 points.15
CologneToronto
Score7257
Tourist attractions within 2 km4323
Park area within 2 km118 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km64
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 8 points.8
CologneToronto
Score5361
Notable places within 2 km81128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cologne leads by 6 points.6
CologneToronto
Score6054
Price level global75.984
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Cologne leads by 5 points.5
CologneToronto
Score6055
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Cologne
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneToronto
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€203-369
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€136-255
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Montego BayMBJ
10 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 35 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureCologneToronto
Official languageGermanFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation59 m76 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneToronto
City population1,024,6212,794,356
People per km²2,5304,434
Museums within 10 km4032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre84102
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.