VacationSelector

Lyon or Toledo?

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

Your match

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

LyonToledo
Beaches & swimming. Lyon and Toledo are level on 0.
LyonToledo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km261
Coast distance253 km320 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 55 points.55
LyonToledo
Score7924
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,691249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km407
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 9 points.9
LyonToledo
Score5546
Museums within 10 km5319
Museums within 2 km of centre2519
Share of museums within 2 km %47100
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 41 points.41
LyonToledo
Score5817
Drinking venues within 4 km866120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7196
Nightclubs within 4 km475
Nature & day trips. Lyon leads by 5 points.5
LyonToledo
Score3328
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %60
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km120 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 5 points.5
LyonToledo
Score5954
Tourist attractions within 2 km2532
Park area within 2 km120 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 8 points.8
LyonToledo
Score5446
Notable places within 2 km8655
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 9 points.9
LyonToledo
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 10 points.10
LyonToledo
Score6474
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2
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. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 20 m
€109-165
LYS · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€79-99
LYS · 20 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 80 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 80 km
TunisTUN
1 h 55 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 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

MeasureLyonToledo
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation160 m523 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonToledo
City population519,12787,216
People per km²10,838376
Museums within 10 km4213
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre14813

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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.