VacationSelector

Miami or Toronto?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

MiamiToronto
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 52 points.52
MiamiToronto
Score9543
Swim season months121
Beaches 10 km2058
Coast distance1 km533 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 17 points.17
MiamiToronto
Score6582
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8982,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2939
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 20 points.20
MiamiToronto
Score2343
Museums within 10 km2835
Museums within 2 km of centre625
Share of museums within 2 km %2171
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 19 points.19
MiamiToronto
Score5069
Drinking venues within 4 km5381,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5364
Nightclubs within 4 km63103
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 46 points.46
MiamiToronto
Score7226
Protected land share 50 km %162
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %48100
Park area within 2 km50 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 13 points.13
MiamiToronto
Score4457
Tourist attractions within 2 km1423
Park area within 2 km50 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 19 points.19
MiamiToronto
Score4261
Notable places within 2 km45128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
MiamiToronto
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 19 points.19
MiamiToronto
Score7455
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
Punta CanaPUJ
2 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
4 h 10 m
€500-667
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
CancunCUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€127-180
MIA · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€183-189
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
3 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
BostonBOS, PSM
3 h 5 m
€274-342
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€294-299
YYZ · 20 km
MinneapolisMSP, STP
3 h 30 m
€145-181
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 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

MeasureMiamiToronto
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m76 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiToronto
City population442,2412,794,356
People per km²3,0464,434
Museums within 10 km1732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre39102
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.