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The coloured houses stepping down to the sea, Positano
PositanoThe coloured houses stepping down to the sea
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Positano by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Positano 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 Positano for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Toronto for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • nightlife

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. Positano 77, Toronto 34: Positano leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Positano 40, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Positano 22, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Positano 22, Toronto 62: Toronto leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Positano 80, Toronto 52: Positano leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Positano 88, Toronto 50: Positano leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Positano 28, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 46 points.
Getting around. Positano 35, Toronto 65: Toronto leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Positano 45, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Positano 10, Toronto 34: Toronto leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Positano 15, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 57 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Positano 45, Toronto 33: Positano leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Positano and Toronto.

Your match

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

Positano
42match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
Best match
55match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

Positano in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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

Positano's temperatures are measured 25 km from the centre, at Capri.

Positano 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.

Positano's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Positano: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (25.3 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePositanoToronto
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation142 m76 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)33 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePositanoToronto
City population3,7292,794,356
People per km²4294,434
Museums within 10 km1032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.