VacationSelector

Lucerne or Toledo?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Toledo
✓ Best match
40
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

LucerneToledo
Beaches & swimming. Lucerne and Toledo are level on 0.
LucerneToledo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km161
Coast distance669 km320 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lucerne leads by 23 points.23
LucerneToledo
Score4724
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km257
Museums & heritage. Toledo leads by 6 points.6
LucerneToledo
Score4046
Museums within 10 km2319
Museums within 2 km of centre1319
Share of museums within 2 km %57100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Lucerne leads by 11 points.11
LucerneToledo
Score2817
Drinking venues within 4 km202120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7596
Nightclubs within 4 km115
Nature & day trips. Toledo leads by 3 points.3
LucerneToledo
Score2528
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Toledo leads by 16 points.16
LucerneToledo
Score3854
Tourist attractions within 2 km1532
Park area within 2 km29 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Toledo leads by 11 points.11
LucerneToledo
Score3546
Notable places within 2 km2955
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 36 points.36
LucerneToledo
Score3571
Price level global110.560.8
Daily budget€248€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 21 points.21
LucerneToledo
Score5374
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLucerneToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
MAD · 80 km
BogotaBOG
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
10 h 5 m
€963-1395
2 stops
MAD · 80 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
12 h 40 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

MeasureLucerneToledo
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshSpanish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation436 m523 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneToledo
City population86,23487,216
People per km²2,963376
Museums within 10 km1413
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4613

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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). 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. 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.