VacationSelector

Toronto or Zurich?

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

Your match

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

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

Zurich
44
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips 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.

TorontoZurich
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
TorontoZurich
Score430
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km5823
Coast distance533 km632 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
TorontoZurich
Score8267
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,133974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3930
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 13 points.13
TorontoZurich
Score4356
Museums within 10 km3576
Museums within 2 km of centre2537
Share of museums within 2 km %7149
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
TorontoZurich
Score6954
Drinking venues within 4 km1,500676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre966553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6482
Nightclubs within 4 km10374
Nature & day trips. Zurich leads by 11 points.11
TorontoZurich
Score2637
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 21 points.21
TorontoZurich
Score5736
Tourist attractions within 2 km238
Park area within 2 km68 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 2 points.2
TorontoZurich
Score6159
Notable places within 2 km128119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 19 points.19
TorontoZurich
Score5435
Price level global84110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Toronto leads by 2 points.2
TorontoZurich
Score5553
Monthly daytime high-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 85 mm60 mm to 128 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Toronto
No sunshine record
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromTorontoZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
LisbonLIS
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 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 2026-09 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

MeasureTorontoZurich
Official languageFrench, EnglishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation76 m408 m
Main airportToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureTorontoZurich
City population2,794,356452,421
People per km²4,4345,147
Museums within 10 km3263
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre10278
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. 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.