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The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Petra 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 Petra for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Toronto for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • families

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. Petra 5, Toronto 34: Toronto leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Petra 22, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Petra 85, Toronto 50: Petra leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Petra 5, Toronto 62: Toronto leads by 57 points.
Nature & outdoors. Petra 78, Toronto 52: Petra leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Petra 30, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Petra 25, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 49 points.
Getting around. Petra 25, Toronto 65: Toronto leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Petra 18, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Petra 45, Toronto 34: Petra leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Petra 10, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Petra 28, Toronto 33: Toronto leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Petra and Toronto.

Your match

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

Petra
31match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Toronto
Best match
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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. Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePetraToronto
Official languageArabicFrench, English
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation850 m76 m
Main airportKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePetraToronto
City population-2,794,356
People per km²-4,434
Museums within 10 km232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.