VacationSelector

Ghent or Toronto?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

GhentToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 17 points.17
GhentToronto
Score2643
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km858
Coast distance32 km533 km
Water distance32 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 12 points.12
GhentToronto
Score7082
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7642,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4939
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 15 points.15
GhentToronto
Score5843
Museums within 10 km2435
Museums within 2 km of centre2025
Share of museums within 2 km %8371
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 20 points.20
GhentToronto
Score4969
Drinking venues within 4 km5701,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7864
Nightclubs within 4 km26103
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 8 points.8
GhentToronto
Score3426
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %87100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
GhentToronto
Score5057
Tourist attractions within 2 km1923
Park area within 2 km84 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
GhentToronto
Score4661
Notable places within 2 km55128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ghent leads by 6 points.6
GhentToronto
Score6054
Price level global76.284
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Ghent leads by 1 points.1
GhentToronto
Score5655
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months10
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 56 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
10 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 2026-08 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

MeasureGhentToronto
Official languageFrench, German, DutchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation12 m76 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentToronto
City population272,6572,794,356
People per km²1,7284,434
Museums within 10 km3032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre83102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.