VacationSelector

Tampa or Toronto?

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

Your match

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

TampaToronto
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 32 points.32
TampaToronto
Score7543
Swim season months81
Beaches 10 km1058
Coast distance1 km533 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 28 points.28
TampaToronto
Score5482
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3592,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3139
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 16 points.16
TampaToronto
Score2743
Museums within 10 km1335
Museums within 2 km of centre1025
Share of museums within 2 km %7771
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 30 points.30
TampaToronto
Score3969
Drinking venues within 4 km3241,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre227966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7064
Nightclubs within 4 km26103
Nature & day trips. Tampa leads by 4 points.4
TampaToronto
Score3026
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %72100
Park area within 2 km39 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 27 points.27
TampaToronto
Score3057
Tourist attractions within 2 km323
Park area within 2 km39 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 40 points.40
TampaToronto
Score2161
Notable places within 2 km13128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
TampaToronto
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 20 points.20
TampaToronto
Score7555
Monthly daytime high21.5 °C to 32.6 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 228 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months10
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTampaToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
Punta CanaPUJ
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
4 h 10 m
€500-667
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
1 h 20 m
€183-189
YYZ · 20 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
CancunCUN
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Fort LauderdaleFLL, FXE
1 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
12 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

MeasureTampaToronto
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation30 m76 m
Main airportTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureTampaToronto
City population384,9592,794,356
People per km²8484,434
Museums within 10 km632
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre47102
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.