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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Key West or Toronto?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Key West for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Key West’s own page.

Choose Toronto for

  • shopping
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Toronto’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Key West 60, Toronto 34: Key West leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Key West and Toronto are level on 62.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Toronto 52: Key West leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Toronto 65: Toronto leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Toronto 34: Toronto leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Toronto 33: Key West leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West and Toronto.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Key West
44match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Toronto
Best match
55match

Wins on shopping and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestToronto
Official language-French, 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
Elevation4 m76 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestToronto
City population26,4442,794,356
People per km²1,4074,434
Museums within 10 km732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months1 month

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.