VacationSelector

Rome or Toronto?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

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

Toronto
54
match

Wins on places to eat and 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.

RomeToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 10 points.10
RomeToronto
Score3343
Swim season months51
Beaches 10 km358
Coast distance24 km533 km
Water distance24 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 22 points.22
RomeToronto
Score6082
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,2412,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1039
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 41 points.41
RomeToronto
Score8443
Museums within 10 km16135
Museums within 2 km of centre7925
Share of museums within 2 km %4971
Unesco sites within 50 km70
Nightlife. Rome leads by 5 points.5
RomeToronto
Score7469
Drinking venues within 4 km2,0221,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre912966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4564
Nightclubs within 4 km85103
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 44 points.44
RomeToronto
Score7026
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km172 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 29 points.29
RomeToronto
Score8657
Tourist attractions within 2 km12623
Park area within 2 km172 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 38 points.38
RomeToronto
Score9961
Notable places within 2 km1,125128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 14 points.14
RomeToronto
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 16 points.16
RomeToronto
Score7155
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
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
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€176-218
FCO · 23 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
CancunCUN
11 h 30 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€270-340
FCO · 23 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
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

MeasureRomeToronto
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
Elevation21 m76 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeToronto
City population2,748,1092,794,356
People per km²2,1354,434
Museums within 10 km17732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km70
Distinct cuisines in the centre65102
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 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.