VacationSelector

Sydney or Toronto?

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

Your match

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on places to eat and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

SydneyToronto
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 17 points.17
SydneyToronto
Score6043
Swim season months61
Beaches 10 km16058
Coast distance7 km533 km
Water distance7 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 4 points.4
SydneyToronto
Score7882
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,2052,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3139
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 8 points.8
SydneyToronto
Score5143
Museums within 10 km4435
Museums within 2 km of centre2025
Share of museums within 2 km %4571
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 6 points.6
SydneyToronto
Score7569
Drinking venues within 4 km2,0501,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,405966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6964
Nightclubs within 4 km120103
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 32 points.32
SydneyToronto
Score5826
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km115 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 7 points.7
SydneyToronto
Score6457
Tourist attractions within 2 km3723
Park area within 2 km115 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 1 points.1
SydneyToronto
Score6061
Notable places within 2 km123128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 4 points.4
SydneyToronto
Score5054
Price level global90.284
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 26 points.26
SydneyToronto
Score8155
Monthly daytime high17.7 °C to 27.7 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 121 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSydneyToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
15 h 20 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
4 h 35 m
€232-264
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 30 m
€548-574
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
San FranciscoSFO
14 h 45 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Hong KongHKG
9 h 20 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
9 h 50 m
€671
SYD · 9 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DohaDOH
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
SantiagoSCL
14 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
10 h 50 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

MeasureSydneyToronto
Official languageEnglishFrench, English
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number000911
Elevation6 m76 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSydneyToronto
City population5,450,4962,794,356
People per km²4494,434
Museums within 10 km3832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre79102
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months1 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.