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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Florence or Toronto?

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 Florence for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Toronto for

  • families
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Toronto’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. Florence 14, Toronto 34: Toronto leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Toronto 70: Florence leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Toronto 50: Florence leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Toronto 62: Toronto leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Toronto 52: Florence leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Toronto 50: Florence leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Toronto 65: Florence leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Toronto 66: Florence leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Toronto 34: Florence leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Toronto 33: Florence leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Toronto.

Your match

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

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Toronto
55match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorenceToronto
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m76 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceToronto
City population360,9302,794,356
People per km²3,5284,434
Museums within 10 km14132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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. 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.

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.