VacationSelector

Faro or Toronto?

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

Your match

Faro
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

FaroToronto
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 18 points.18
FaroToronto
Score6143
Swim season months31
Beaches 10 km1358
Coast distance0 km533 km
Water distance0 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 38 points.38
FaroToronto
Score4482
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2552,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2239
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 21 points.21
FaroToronto
Score2243
Museums within 10 km935
Museums within 2 km of centre825
Share of museums within 2 km %8971
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 48 points.48
FaroToronto
Score2169
Drinking venues within 4 km1431,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8664
Nightclubs within 4 km8103
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 31 points.31
FaroToronto
Score5726
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 21 points.21
FaroToronto
Score3657
Tourist attractions within 2 km1023
Park area within 2 km34 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 39 points.39
FaroToronto
Score2261
Notable places within 2 km14128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 20 points.20
FaroToronto
Score7454
Price level global55.984
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 28 points.28
FaroToronto
Score8355
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months60
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
PortoOPO
1 h 15 m
€37-132
FAO · 3 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
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

MeasureFaroToronto
Official languagePortugueseFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m76 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroToronto
City population64,5602,794,356
People per km²3194,434
Museums within 10 km232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre34102
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months1 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.