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The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art
Puente de San Martín over the Tagus, Toledo
ToledoPuente de San Martín over the Tagus

Photos: Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Toledo by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Santa Fe or Toledo?

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 Santa Fe for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Toledo for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Toledo’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. Santa Fe and Toledo are level on 5.
Food & drink. Santa Fe 62, Toledo 40: Santa Fe leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Fe 66, Toledo 79: Toledo leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Santa Fe and Toledo are level on 22.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Fe 80, Toledo 40: Santa Fe leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Santa Fe 70, Toledo 78: Toledo leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Santa Fe and Toledo are level on 45.
Getting around. Santa Fe 40, Toledo 64: Toledo leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Fe 62, Toledo 32: Santa Fe leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Santa Fe 30, Toledo 58: Toledo leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Fe 55, Toledo 22: Santa Fe leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Fe 55, Toledo 30: Santa Fe leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santa Fe and Toledo.

Your match

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

Santa Fe
Best match
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Toledo
43match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Toledo in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
6 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
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

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta FeToledo
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,134 m523 m
Main airportSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSanta FeToledo
City population87,50587,216
People per km²645376
Museums within 10 km1013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

Where else could you go?

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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. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.