VacationSelector

Malaga or Toronto?

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

Your match

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

MalagaToronto
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 23 points.23
MalagaToronto
Score6643
Swim season months31
Beaches 10 km2158
Coast distance0 km533 km
Water distance0 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 13 points.13
MalagaToronto
Score6982
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0022,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3439
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 10 points.10
MalagaToronto
Score5343
Museums within 10 km4035
Museums within 2 km of centre3525
Share of museums within 2 km %8871
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
MalagaToronto
Score5469
Drinking venues within 4 km7151,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre486966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6864
Nightclubs within 4 km45103
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 17 points.17
MalagaToronto
Score4326
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %63100
Park area within 2 km85 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 4 points.4
MalagaToronto
Score5357
Tourist attractions within 2 km3323
Park area within 2 km85 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 24 points.24
MalagaToronto
Score3761
Notable places within 2 km33128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 17 points.17
MalagaToronto
Score7154
Price level global60.884
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 27 points.27
MalagaToronto
Score8255
Monthly daytime high17.2 °C to 31.5 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 88 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months50
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMalagaToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 9 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
7 h 50 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

MeasureMalagaToronto
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
Elevation18 m76 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaToronto
City population599,0632,794,356
People per km²1,5174,434
Museums within 10 km3232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre65102
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months1 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. 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. 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.