VacationSelector

Seattle or Toronto?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

SeattleToronto
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 17 points.17
SeattleToronto
Score6043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km10058
Coast distance1 km533 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
SeattleToronto
Score7582
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4602,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3539
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
SeattleToronto
Score3643
Museums within 10 km2835
Museums within 2 km of centre1725
Share of museums within 2 km %6171
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 12 points.12
SeattleToronto
Score5769
Drinking venues within 4 km8731,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre696966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8064
Nightclubs within 4 km34103
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 14 points.14
SeattleToronto
Score4026
Protected land share 50 km %92
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
SeattleToronto
Score4657
Tourist attractions within 2 km1723
Park area within 2 km63 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 9 points.9
SeattleToronto
Score5261
Notable places within 2 km76128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
SeattleToronto
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 6 points.6
SeattleToronto
Score6155
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
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

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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeattleToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 0 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€183-189
YYZ · 20 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
CancunCUN
5 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
CalgaryYYC
1 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
3 h 50 m
€180-198
YYZ · 20 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 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 2026-08 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

MeasureSeattleToronto
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
Elevation40 m76 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleToronto
City population737,0152,794,356
People per km²1,9964,434
Museums within 10 km2732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre78102
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.