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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Lisbon 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 Lisbon for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Toronto for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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. Lisbon 50, Toronto 34: Lisbon leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Toronto 70: Lisbon leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Toronto 50: Lisbon leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Toronto 62: Lisbon leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Toronto 52: Lisbon leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Toronto 50: Lisbon leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Lisbon 62, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Toronto 65: Lisbon leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Toronto 34: Lisbon leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Toronto 33: Lisbon leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Toronto.

Your match

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

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Toronto
55match

Wins on families and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonToronto
Official languagePortugueseFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m76 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonToronto
City population545,7962,794,356
People per km²5,4534,434
Museums within 10 km8032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

Where else could you go?

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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). 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.

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.