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Fort Lauderdale or Toronto?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

Fort LauderdaleToronto
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 41 points.41
Fort LauderdaleToronto
Score8443
Swim season months121
Beaches 10 km758
Coast distance0 km533 km
Water distance0 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 37 points.37
Fort LauderdaleToronto
Score4582
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3712,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1839
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 23 points.23
Fort LauderdaleToronto
Score2043
Museums within 10 km1435
Museums within 2 km of centre625
Share of museums within 2 km %4371
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 35 points.35
Fort LauderdaleToronto
Score3469
Drinking venues within 4 km2591,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5664
Nightclubs within 4 km18103
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 55 points.55
Fort LauderdaleToronto
Score8126
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 38 points.38
Fort LauderdaleToronto
Score1957
Tourist attractions within 2 km223
Park area within 2 km45 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 61 points.61
Fort LauderdaleToronto
Score061
Notable places within 2 km2128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
Fort LauderdaleToronto
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 21 points.21
Fort LauderdaleToronto
Score7655
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€183-189
YYZ · 20 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
2 h 35 m
€125-184
FLL · 7 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BostonBOS, PSM
3 h 0 m
€292-332
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€294-299
YYZ · 20 km
OttawaYOW, YND
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Punta CanaPUJ
2 h 25 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
4 h 10 m
€500-667
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleToronto
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation11 m76 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleToronto
City population182,7602,794,356
People per km²1,8294,434
Museums within 10 km632
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre25102
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.