VacationSelector

Manchester or Toronto?

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

Your match

Manchester
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and 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.

ManchesterToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
ManchesterToronto
Score2843
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km1058
Coast distance27 km533 km
Water distance27 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 14 points.14
ManchesterToronto
Score6882
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8532,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3539
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 1 points.1
ManchesterToronto
Score4243
Museums within 10 km2335
Museums within 2 km of centre1125
Share of museums within 2 km %4871
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
ManchesterToronto
Score6269
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0291,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre792966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7764
Nightclubs within 4 km82103
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 10 points.10
ManchesterToronto
Score3626
Protected land share 50 km %172
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %99100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 25 points.25
ManchesterToronto
Score3257
Tourist attractions within 2 km523
Park area within 2 km63 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 13 points.13
ManchesterToronto
Score4861
Notable places within 2 km61128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manchester and Toronto are level on 54.
ManchesterToronto
Score5454
Price level global84.984
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Toronto leads by 1 points.1
ManchesterToronto
Score5455
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManchesterToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
4 h 10 m
€500-667
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
CancunCUN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
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

MeasureManchesterToronto
Official languageEnglishFrench, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation38 m76 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterToronto
City population547,6272,794,356
People per km²4,7374,434
Museums within 10 km2832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre63102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 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). 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.