VacationSelector

Alicante or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Alicante
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

AlicanteToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteToulouse
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km331
Coast distance1 km145 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 4 points.4
AlicanteToulouse
Score6670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3137
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 9 points.9
AlicanteToulouse
Score4251
Museums within 10 km1427
Museums within 2 km of centre1118
Share of museums within 2 km %7967
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 8 points.8
AlicanteToulouse
Score5143
Drinking venues within 4 km591389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8388
Nightclubs within 4 km5436
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 19 points.19
AlicanteToulouse
Score4021
Protected land share 50 km %71
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 24 points.24
AlicanteToulouse
Score4266
Tourist attractions within 2 km1380
Park area within 2 km60 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 25 points.25
AlicanteToulouse
Score2651
Notable places within 2 km1872
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 9 points.9
AlicanteToulouse
Score7162
Price level global60.873.7
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 16 points.16
AlicanteToulouse
Score8771
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months111
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
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Toulouse
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
CCF · 82 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BristolBRS
2 h 25 m
€66-103
ALC · 10 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
TLS · 7 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

MeasureAlicanteToulouse
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m115 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteToulouse
City population366,221514,819
People per km²1,8194,352
Museums within 10 km824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre52101
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.