VacationSelector

Granada or Toledo?

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

Your match

Granada
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Granada if you want a wide choice of restaurants, a real night out and open country within reach, with 27% of the surrounding land protected.

Choose Toledo if you want a quieter, drier base with more park space near the centre, a theme park within reach and 2 UNESCO-listed places on day trips.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GranadaToledo
Beaches & swimming. Granada and Toledo are level on 0.
GranadaToledo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance48 km320 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Granada leads by 43 points.43
GranadaToledo
Score6724
Restaurants within 2 km of centre872249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km347
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 2 points.2
GranadaToledo
Score4846
Museums within 10 km2819
Museums within 2 km of centre2619
Share of museums within 2 km %93100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Granada leads by 35 points.35
GranadaToledo
Score5217
Drinking venues within 4 km637120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7896
Nightclubs within 4 km465
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 35 points.35
GranadaToledo
Score6328
Protected land share 50 km %274
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %96100
Park area within 2 km46 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 2 points.2
GranadaToledo
Score5654
Tourist attractions within 2 km6032
Park area within 2 km46 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Toledo leads by 2 points.2
GranadaToledo
Score4446
Notable places within 2 km5055
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada and Toledo are level on 71.
GranadaToledo
Score7171
Price level global60.860.8
Daily budget€122€122
Year-round weather. Granada and Toledo are level on 74.
GranadaToledo
Score7474
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months711
0255075100

Where they differ

Granada has about three times as many restaurants near the centre and a much wider range of kitchens, and many times as many bars and clubs, most of them central. It also has the bigger hinterland: 27% of the land around it is protected against 4% around Toledo, and about twice as many attractions sit near the centre.

Toledo answers with more park space near the centre, 1 theme park within reach and 2 UNESCO-listed places on day trips against Granada's 1.

Where they are alike

Weather is where they are closest. Both reach 35°C in July, both sit at 12-13°C in January, and both get close to 3000 hours of sun a year, so the seasonal shape of a trip is the same in either.

They are also close on how much sits within walking distance of the centre, on museum count, with Granada a little ahead, and on how well they work for families, where Granada's attractions offset Toledo's parks.

Which traveller are you?

Someone who plans a trip around dinner and what follows should take Granada: roughly three times as many restaurants near the centre, a wider range of kitchens, and many times as many bars and clubs, nearly all walkable.

Walkers and day-trippers also lean Granada, where 27% of the surrounding land is protected against 4% around Toledo, so there is far more open country to aim at from the same base.

Families with young children and heritage-first travellers get more from Toledo: more park space near the centre, 1 theme park within reach and 2 UNESCO-listed places on day trips, in a smaller, quieter town.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value figure is a national price level and is identical for both by construction, so it tells you nothing about which of these two costs less. The €122 daily budget beside it is one estimate for the country rather than a measurement of either city, and neither should be called the cheaper trip.

Toledo's single nearby beach should not sway anything either: neither city has a month with sea at 21°C or more. And the driest months are the hottest ones, 35°C in July in both, so a near-rainless summer reads better on paper than it walks.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Granada peaks in May, with highs near 25°C and 29mm of rain, and again in September at 29°C. July hits 35°C with almost no rain. Autumn turns wetter, 45mm in October and 51mm in November.

Toledo is the drier of the two in most months and is at its best in May and September, with just 21mm in September. Winter days top out around 12°C, so January is for indoor time either way.

Getting there

Flying fromGranadaToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 80 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 15 m
€99-166
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 25 m
€111-148
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
DohaDOH
7 h 5 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 80 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

MeasureGranadaToledo
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation693 m523 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaToledo
City population233,97587,216
People per km²2,659376
Museums within 10 km1913
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre6213

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.