VacationSelector

Sofia 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

Sofia
56
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

SofiaToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
SofiaToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km058
Coast distance214 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 18 points.18
SofiaToronto
Score6482
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8452,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2839
Museums & heritage. Sofia leads by 14 points.14
SofiaToronto
Score5743
Museums within 10 km5135
Museums within 2 km of centre4025
Share of museums within 2 km %7871
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 8 points.8
SofiaToronto
Score6169
Drinking venues within 4 km9581,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre608966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6364
Nightclubs within 4 km102103
Nature & day trips. Sofia leads by 25 points.25
SofiaToronto
Score5126
Protected land share 50 km %122
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km229 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 2 points.2
SofiaToronto
Score5557
Tourist attractions within 2 km2023
Park area within 2 km229 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 4 points.4
SofiaToronto
Score5761
Notable places within 2 km104128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 45 points.45
SofiaToronto
Score9954
Price level global21.484
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Sofia leads by 9 points.9
SofiaToronto
Score6455
Monthly daytime high3.5 °C to 28.4 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 78 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
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Sofia
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Sofia
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSofiaToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 8 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
3 h 35 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 8 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
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

MeasureSofiaToronto
Official languageBulgarianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation560 m76 m
Main airportSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSofiaToronto
City population1,213,1342,794,356
People per km²2,4664,434
Museums within 10 km4232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre51102
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.