VacationSelector

Nice 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

Nice
56
match

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

Toronto
54
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

NiceToronto
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 30 points.30
NiceToronto
Score7343
Swim season months41
Beaches 10 km7058
Coast distance1 km533 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 13 points.13
NiceToronto
Score6982
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2312,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2839
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 3 points.3
NiceToronto
Score4643
Museums within 10 km2735
Museums within 2 km of centre1425
Share of museums within 2 km %5271
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 25 points.25
NiceToronto
Score4469
Drinking venues within 4 km4281,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9164
Nightclubs within 4 km26103
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 31 points.31
NiceToronto
Score5726
Protected land share 50 km %242
Landscape blanket share 50 km %200
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 27 points.27
NiceToronto
Score3057
Tourist attractions within 2 km423
Park area within 2 km56 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 14 points.14
NiceToronto
Score4761
Notable places within 2 km60128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 8 points.8
NiceToronto
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 19 points.19
NiceToronto
Score7455
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNiceToronto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 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

MeasureNiceToronto
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m76 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceToronto
City population357,7372,794,356
People per km²4,9754,434
Museums within 10 km1632
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre65102
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.