VacationSelector

Lucerne or Toronto?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

LucerneToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
LucerneToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km1658
Coast distance669 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 35 points.35
LucerneToronto
Score4782
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2692,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2539
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 3 points.3
LucerneToronto
Score4043
Museums within 10 km2335
Museums within 2 km of centre1325
Share of museums within 2 km %5771
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 41 points.41
LucerneToronto
Score2869
Drinking venues within 4 km2021,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7564
Nightclubs within 4 km11103
Nature & day trips. Toronto leads by 1 points.1
LucerneToronto
Score2526
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 19 points.19
LucerneToronto
Score3857
Tourist attractions within 2 km1523
Park area within 2 km29 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 26 points.26
LucerneToronto
Score3561
Notable places within 2 km29128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 19 points.19
LucerneToronto
Score3554
Price level global110.584
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Toronto leads by 2 points.2
LucerneToronto
Score5355
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
Toronto
No sunshine record

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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLucerneToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 49 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureLucerneToronto
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshFrench, English
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation436 m76 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneToronto
City population86,2342,794,356
People per km²2,9634,434
Museums within 10 km1432
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre46102
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.