VacationSelector

Paris or Toronto?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

ParisToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
ParisToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km258
Coast distance149 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 8 points.8
ParisToronto
Score9082
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,7322,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3339
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 33 points.33
ParisToronto
Score7643
Museums within 10 km18535
Museums within 2 km of centre6525
Share of museums within 2 km %3571
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Paris leads by 19 points.19
ParisToronto
Score8869
Drinking venues within 4 km3,7961,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4564
Nightclubs within 4 km201103
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 22 points.22
ParisToronto
Score4826
Protected land share 50 km %282
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km82 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 18 points.18
ParisToronto
Score7557
Tourist attractions within 2 km8923
Park area within 2 km82 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 33 points.33
ParisToronto
Score9461
Notable places within 2 km865128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 8 points.8
ParisToronto
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 11 points.11
ParisToronto
Score6655
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months10
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€444-536
CDG · 22 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 20 m
€138-242
ORY · 14 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 0 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
4 h 10 m
€500-667
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
CancunCUN
10 h 20 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
12 h 50 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

MeasureParisToronto
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
Elevation27 m76 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisToronto
City population2,103,7782,794,356
People per km²19,9604,434
Museums within 10 km25132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre169102
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.