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Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Medellin or Toronto?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Medellin for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Medellin’s own page.

Choose Toronto for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Toronto’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Medellin 5, Toronto 34: Toronto leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Medellin 58, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Medellin 42, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Medellin 76, Toronto 62: Medellin leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Medellin 66, Toronto 52: Medellin leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Medellin 58, Toronto 50: Medellin leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Medellin 50, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Medellin 55, Toronto 65: Toronto leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Medellin 45, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Medellin 80, Toronto 34: Medellin leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Medellin 42, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Medellin 30, Toronto 33: Toronto leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Medellin and Toronto.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Medellin
51match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Toronto
Best match
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Medellin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
133 mmrain in the month
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Medellin has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Medellin: 1958-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Medellin / Olaya Herrera (5.2 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMedellinToronto
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number123911
Elevation1,405 m76 m
Main airportJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMedellinToronto
City population2,529,4032,794,356
People per km²6,6444,434
Museums within 10 km1432
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.