VacationSelector

Porto or Toronto?

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

Your match

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

PortoToronto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 17 points.17
PortoToronto
Score6043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km5258
Coast distance4 km533 km
Water distance3 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 14 points.14
PortoToronto
Score6882
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1722,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2739
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 28 points.28
PortoToronto
Score7143
Museums within 10 km10135
Museums within 2 km of centre5725
Share of museums within 2 km %5671
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
PortoToronto
Score5869
Drinking venues within 4 km9001,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6364
Nightclubs within 4 km38103
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 7 points.7
PortoToronto
Score3326
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km30 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 8 points.8
PortoToronto
Score6557
Tourist attractions within 2 km12223
Park area within 2 km30 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
PortoToronto
Score5461
Notable places within 2 km85128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 20 points.20
PortoToronto
Score7454
Price level global55.984
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 16 points.16
PortoToronto
Score7155
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoToronto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
FunchalFNC
2 h 5 m
€67-130
OPO · 12 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 45 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
10 h 20 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

MeasurePortoToronto
Official languagePortugueseFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation104 m76 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoToronto
City population231,8002,794,356
People per km²5,5994,434
Museums within 10 km4232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre70102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.