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Philadelphia or Toronto?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

PhiladelphiaToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
PhiladelphiaToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km158
Coast distance13 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 5 points.5
PhiladelphiaToronto
Score7782
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7142,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3539
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 17 points.17
PhiladelphiaToronto
Score6043
Museums within 10 km8935
Museums within 2 km of centre4825
Share of museums within 2 km %5471
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 10 points.10
PhiladelphiaToronto
Score5969
Drinking venues within 4 km9301,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6264
Nightclubs within 4 km41103
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 23 points.23
PhiladelphiaToronto
Score4926
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 4 points.4
PhiladelphiaToronto
Score5357
Tourist attractions within 2 km1623
Park area within 2 km75 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
PhiladelphiaToronto
Score5461
Notable places within 2 km88128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
PhiladelphiaToronto
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 5 points.5
PhiladelphiaToronto
Score6055
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaToronto
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
1 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
Fort LauderdaleFLL, FXE
2 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BostonBOS, PSM
1 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€294-299
YYZ · 20 km
NashvilleBNA
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
4 h 10 m
€500-667
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
CancunCUN
3 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaToronto
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation12 m76 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaToronto
City population1,603,7972,794,356
People per km²4,3394,434
Museums within 10 km5432
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre75102
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). 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. 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.