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Ottawa or Toledo?

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

Your match

Ottawa
✓ Best match
43
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on year-round weather and 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.

OttawaToledo
Beaches & swimming. Ottawa and Toledo are level on 0.
OttawaToledo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance423 km320 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 40 points.40
OttawaToledo
Score6424
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km347
Museums & heritage. Toledo leads by 14 points.14
OttawaToledo
Score3246
Museums within 10 km1519
Museums within 2 km of centre819
Share of museums within 2 km %53100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 27 points.27
OttawaToledo
Score4417
Drinking venues within 4 km432120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7096
Nightclubs within 4 km355
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 13 points.13
OttawaToledo
Score4128
Protected land share 50 km %84
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km122 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Toledo leads by 8 points.8
OttawaToledo
Score4654
Tourist attractions within 2 km1132
Park area within 2 km122 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 4 points.4
OttawaToledo
Score5046
Notable places within 2 km7155
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 17 points.17
OttawaToledo
Score5471
Price level global8460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 21 points.21
OttawaToledo
Score5374
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months011
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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
No sunshine record
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
CancunCUN
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
3 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 0 m
€340-544
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
2 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 80 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

MeasureOttawaToledo
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation70 m523 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaToledo
City population1,017,44987,216
People per km²366376
Museums within 10 km2013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre6213

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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. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.