VacationSelector

Florence or Toronto?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Florence
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

FlorenceToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
FlorenceToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km058
Coast distance78 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 23 points.23
FlorenceToronto
Score5982
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2992,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1539
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 39 points.39
FlorenceToronto
Score8243
Museums within 10 km13235
Museums within 2 km of centre9325
Share of museums within 2 km %7071
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 13 points.13
FlorenceToronto
Score5669
Drinking venues within 4 km8181,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7364
Nightclubs within 4 km34103
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 12 points.12
FlorenceToronto
Score3826
Protected land share 50 km %92
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km86 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 5 points.5
FlorenceToronto
Score5257
Tourist attractions within 2 km3023
Park area within 2 km86 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceToronto
Score7561
Notable places within 2 km292128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceToronto
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 13 points.13
FlorenceToronto
Score6855
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months20
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceToronto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 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 2026-08 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

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 centre36 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 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 km14032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre62102
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.