VacationSelector

Salzburg or Toronto?

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

Your match

Salzburg
42
match

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

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

SalzburgToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
SalzburgToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km958
Coast distance653 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 33 points.33
SalzburgToronto
Score4982
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3482,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2339
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 17 points.17
SalzburgToronto
Score6043
Museums within 10 km4235
Museums within 2 km of centre2725
Share of museums within 2 km %6471
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 33 points.33
SalzburgToronto
Score3669
Drinking venues within 4 km2941,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre241966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8264
Nightclubs within 4 km16103
Nature & day trips. Salzburg leads by 1 points.1
SalzburgToronto
Score2726
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km39 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 9 points.9
SalzburgToronto
Score4857
Tourist attractions within 2 km1723
Park area within 2 km39 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
SalzburgToronto
Score4661
Notable places within 2 km54128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 5 points.5
SalzburgToronto
Score5954
Price level global76.984
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Toronto leads by 1 points.1
SalzburgToronto
Score5455
Monthly daytime high3.4 °C to 24.9 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSalzburgToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureSalzburgToronto
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation424 m76 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgToronto
City population155,0212,794,356
People per km²2,3604,434
Museums within 10 km3832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre50102
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.