VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Toledo?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

HeidelbergToledo
Beaches & swimming. Heidelberg and Toledo are level on 0.
HeidelbergToledo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km61
Coast distance406 km320 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Heidelberg leads by 23 points.23
HeidelbergToledo
Score4724
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km267
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 13 points.13
HeidelbergToledo
Score5946
Museums within 10 km5419
Museums within 2 km of centre2319
Share of museums within 2 km %43100
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Heidelberg leads by 10 points.10
HeidelbergToledo
Score2717
Drinking venues within 4 km201120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8496
Nightclubs within 4 km85
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 46 points.46
HeidelbergToledo
Score7428
Protected land share 50 km %524
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Toledo leads by 11 points.11
HeidelbergToledo
Score4354
Tourist attractions within 2 km2932
Park area within 2 km20 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Toledo leads by 10 points.10
HeidelbergToledo
Score3646
Notable places within 2 km3155
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 11 points.11
HeidelbergToledo
Score6071
Price level global75.960.8
Daily budget€163€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 13 points.13
HeidelbergToledo
Score6174
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months011
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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€226-277
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 50 m
€121-146
FRA · 69 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
MAD · 80 km
BogotaBOG
11 h 20 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
10 h 5 m
€963-1395
2 stops
MAD · 80 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 50 m
€683-756
FRA · 69 km
11 h 30 m
€638-793
2 stops
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 2026-09 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

MeasureHeidelbergToledo
Official languageGermanSpanish
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
Elevation114 m523 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergToledo
City population162,96087,216
People per km²1,496376
Museums within 10 km1713
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre4513

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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.