VacationSelector

Dubai or Toledo?

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

Your match

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
match

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

Toledo
40
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration 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.

DubaiToledo
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 100 points.100
DubaiToledo
Score1000
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km521
Coast distance0 km320 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 42 points.42
DubaiToledo
Score6624
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km267
Museums & heritage. Toledo leads by 8 points.8
DubaiToledo
Score3846
Museums within 10 km2619
Museums within 2 km of centre1819
Share of museums within 2 km %69100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 36 points.36
DubaiToledo
Score5317
Drinking venues within 4 km601120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5196
Nightclubs within 4 km845
Nature & day trips. Toledo leads by 10 points.10
DubaiToledo
Score1828
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Toledo leads by 5 points.5
DubaiToledo
Score4954
Tourist attractions within 2 km3732
Park area within 2 km13 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Toledo leads by 9 points.9
DubaiToledo
Score3746
Notable places within 2 km3355
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 2 points.2
DubaiToledo
Score6971
Price level global63.460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 8 points.8
DubaiToledo
Score6674
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months1211
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
No sunshine record
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. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 80 km
PalmaPMI
6 h 40 m
no fares
AUH · 114 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 80 km
AmsterdamAMS
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
6 h 45 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
RiyadhRUH
1 h 40 m
€106-123
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
BogotaBOG
16 h 40 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
10 h 5 m
€963-1395
2 stops
MAD · 80 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
7 h 35 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
11 h 30 m
€638-793
2 stops
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 2026-08 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

MeasureDubaiToledo
Official languageArabicSpanish
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m523 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiToledo
City population3,944,75187,216
People per km²376
Museums within 10 km1413
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre5213
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.