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Palm Springs
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Palm Springs 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 Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Toronto for

  • getting around
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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. Palm Springs 7, Toronto 34: Toronto leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Palm Springs 40, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Springs 42, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Palm Springs 36, Toronto 62: Toronto leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Springs 78, Toronto 52: Palm Springs leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Palm Springs 38, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Palm Springs 40, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Palm Springs 22, Toronto 65: Toronto leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Springs 44, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Palm Springs 32, Toronto 34: Toronto leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Springs 40, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Springs 80, Toronto 33: Palm Springs leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Springs and Toronto.

Your match

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

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Toronto
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 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

Palm Springs 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. Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm SpringsToronto
Official language-French, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation146 m76 m
Main airportPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm SpringsToronto
City population44,5752,794,356
People per km²1814,434
Museums within 10 km332
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.