VacationSelector

Shanghai or Toledo?

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

Your match

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage 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.

ShanghaiToledo
Beaches & swimming. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
ShanghaiToledo
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance18 km320 km
Water distance18 km—
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Toledo leads by 1 points.1
ShanghaiToledo
Score4546
Museums within 10 km10819
Museums within 2 km of centre2819
Share of museums within 2 km %26100
Unesco sites within 50 km02
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 14 points.14
ShanghaiToledo
Score4228
Protected land share 50 km %94
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km83 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 27 points.27
ShanghaiToledo
Score8154
Tourist attractions within 2 km8632
Park area within 2 km83 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km101
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 5 points.5
ShanghaiToledo
Score5146
Notable places within 2 km7355
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 8 points.8
ShanghaiToledo
Score7971
Price level global4960.8
Daily budget—€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 9 points.9
ShanghaiToledo
Score6574
Monthly daytime high8.5 °C to 33.2 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 216 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months011
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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4
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. Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromShanghaiToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
2 h 35 m
€216-247
PVG · 33 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
TokyoHND, NRT
2 h 45 m
€326-382
PVG · 33 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
ChongqingCKG, CQW
2 h 25 m
€175-196
PVG · 33 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
2 h 0 m
€150-154
PVG · 33 km
11 h 30 m
€638-793
2 stops
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
23 h 45 m
€1,545-1873
2 stops
PVG · 33 km
12 h 30 m
€1,194-1343
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
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

MeasureShanghaiToledo
Official languagePutonghuaSpanish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation4 m523 m
Main airportShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureShanghaiToledo
City population24,870,89587,216
People per km²3,922376
Museums within 10 km4413
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6413
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months–

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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.