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San Jose or Toronto?

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

Your match

San Jose
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

San JoseToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 35 points.35
San JoseToronto
Score843
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km158
Coast distance14 km533 km
Water distance14 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 41 points.41
San JoseToronto
Score4182
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3132,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1639
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 17 points.17
San JoseToronto
Score2643
Museums within 10 km2035
Museums within 2 km of centre925
Share of museums within 2 km %4571
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 38 points.38
San JoseToronto
Score3169
Drinking venues within 4 km2311,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3864
Nightclubs within 4 km16103
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 44 points.44
San JoseToronto
Score7026
Protected land share 50 km %262
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %91100
Park area within 2 km101 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 24 points.24
San JoseToronto
Score3357
Tourist attractions within 2 km223
Park area within 2 km101 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 47 points.47
San JoseToronto
Score1461
Notable places within 2 km9128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
San JoseToronto
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 30 points.30
San JoseToronto
Score8555
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months80
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
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan JoseToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
2 h 10 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
4 h 35 m
€232-264
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 15 m
€252-262
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
1 h 20 m
€183-189
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
BostonBOS, PSM
5 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 30 m
€294-299
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 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 2026-09 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

MeasureSan JoseToronto
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation25 m76 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseToronto
City population1,013,2402,794,356
People per km²2,1674,434
Museums within 10 km1932
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre30102
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). 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. 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.