VacationSelector

Seattle or Toledo?

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

Your match

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

SeattleToledo
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
SeattleToledo
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1001
Coast distance1 km320 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 51 points.51
SeattleToledo
Score7524
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,460249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km357
Museums & heritage. Toledo leads by 10 points.10
SeattleToledo
Score3646
Museums within 10 km2819
Museums within 2 km of centre1719
Share of museums within 2 km %61100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 40 points.40
SeattleToledo
Score5717
Drinking venues within 4 km873120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre696115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8096
Nightclubs within 4 km345
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 12 points.12
SeattleToledo
Score4028
Protected land share 50 km %94
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Toledo leads by 8 points.8
SeattleToledo
Score4654
Tourist attractions within 2 km1732
Park area within 2 km63 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 6 points.6
SeattleToledo
Score5246
Notable places within 2 km7655
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 28 points.28
SeattleToledo
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 13 points.13
SeattleToledo
Score6174
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months311
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Seattle
No sunshine record
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeattleToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
5 h 50 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
9 h 0 m
€340-544
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
MAD · 80 km
GuadalajaraGDL
4 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 80 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

MeasureSeattleToledo
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation40 m523 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleToledo
City population737,01587,216
People per km²1,996376
Museums within 10 km2713
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7813
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. 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.