VacationSelector

New York or Toronto?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on value for money 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.

New YorkToronto
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 21 points.21
New YorkToronto
Score6443
Swim season months31
Beaches 10 km1758
Coast distance1 km533 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 13 points.13
New YorkToronto
Score9582
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0322,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3839
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 17 points.17
New YorkToronto
Score6043
Museums within 10 km11935
Museums within 2 km of centre3125
Share of museums within 2 km %2671
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New York leads by 20 points.20
New YorkToronto
Score8969
Drinking venues within 4 km4,1591,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4864
Nightclubs within 4 km192103
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 13 points.13
New YorkToronto
Score3926
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 15 points.15
New YorkToronto
Score7257
Tourist attractions within 2 km3723
Park area within 2 km134 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km74
Sights concentration. New York leads by 13 points.13
New YorkToronto
Score7461
Notable places within 2 km268128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
New YorkToronto
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. New York leads by 3 points.3
New YorkToronto
Score5855
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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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A
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Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
New York
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

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkToronto
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
1 h 15 m
€229-272
LGA · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€183-189
YYZ · 20 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
2 h 30 m
€207-260
LGA · 13 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BostonBOS, PSM
1 h 0 m
€193-222
JFK · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€294-299
YYZ · 20 km
Fort LauderdaleFLL, FXE
2 h 40 m
€175-259
LGA · 13 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
4 h 40 m
€374-446
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
11 h 35 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

MeasureNew YorkToronto
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
Elevation25 m76 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkToronto
City population8,804,1902,794,356
People per km²7,2564,434
Museums within 10 km15732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre132102
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). 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.