VacationSelector

Tokyo or Toronto?

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

Your match

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

TokyoToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 22 points.22
TokyoToronto
Score2143
Swim season months41
Beaches 10 km158
Coast distance5 km533 km
Water distance5 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 8 points.8
TokyoToronto
Score9082
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,9362,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2539
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 23 points.23
TokyoToronto
Score6643
Museums within 10 km30235
Museums within 2 km of centre5225
Share of museums within 2 km %1771
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 26 points.26
TokyoToronto
Score9569
Drinking venues within 4 km6,8951,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3,033966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4464
Nightclubs within 4 km58103
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 32 points.32
TokyoToronto
Score5826
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km85 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 14 points.14
TokyoToronto
Score7157
Tourist attractions within 2 km4023
Park area within 2 km85 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km94
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 1 points.1
TokyoToronto
Score6061
Notable places within 2 km121128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 16 points.16
TokyoToronto
Score7054
Price level global62.484
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tokyo leads by 9 points.9
TokyoToronto
Score6455
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 31.5 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall57 mm to 237 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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTokyoToronto
SeoulICN, GMP
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 56 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
12 h 50 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
Hong KongHKG
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 56 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 25 m
€755-991
1 stop
HND · 18 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DohaDOH
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
13 h 30 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

MeasureTokyoToronto
Official languageJapaneseFrench, English
CurrencyYen (JPY)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation6 m76 m
Main airportTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureTokyoToronto
City population14,264,7982,794,356
People per km²6,5014,434
Museums within 10 km19132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre125102
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.