VacationSelector

Madrid or Toronto?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

MadridToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
MadridToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km458
Coast distance305 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 1 points.1
MadridToronto
Score8382
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,5082,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2839
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 32 points.32
MadridToronto
Score7543
Museums within 10 km9735
Museums within 2 km of centre5925
Share of museums within 2 km %6171
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 12 points.12
MadridToronto
Score8169
Drinking venues within 4 km2,4141,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6264
Nightclubs within 4 km341103
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 37 points.37
MadridToronto
Score6326
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km187 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 20 points.20
MadridToronto
Score7757
Tourist attractions within 2 km6123
Park area within 2 km187 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 14 points.14
MadridToronto
Score7561
Notable places within 2 km288128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 17 points.17
MadridToronto
Score7154
Price level global60.884
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 17 points.17
MadridToronto
Score7255
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months70
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 14 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 20 m
€861-905
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
11 h 30 m
€638-793
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
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

MeasureMadridToronto
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation663 m76 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridToronto
City population3,506,7302,794,356
People per km²5,8014,434
Museums within 10 km8832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre106102
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). 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. 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. 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.