VacationSelector

Athens or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

AthensToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 48 points.48
AthensToulouse
Score480
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km141
Coast distance6 km145 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 1 points.1
AthensToulouse
Score6970
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2537
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 22 points.22
AthensToulouse
Score7351
Museums within 10 km12227
Museums within 2 km of centre7818
Share of museums within 2 km %6467
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Athens leads by 38 points.38
AthensToulouse
Score8143
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5088
Nightclubs within 4 km13636
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 24 points.24
AthensToulouse
Score4521
Protected land share 50 km %51
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %50100
Park area within 2 km128 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 5 points.5
AthensToulouse
Score7166
Tourist attractions within 2 km6880
Park area within 2 km128 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 24 points.24
AthensToulouse
Score7551
Notable places within 2 km29172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 12 points.12
AthensToulouse
Score7462
Price level global55.873.7
Daily budget€125€160
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 3 points.3
AthensToulouse
Score7471
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months71
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
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
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
3 h 20 m
€312-356
1 stop
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 10 m
€195-281
ATH · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
€214-254
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
HeraklionHER
1 h 0 m
€84-111
ATH · 20 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAthensToulouse
Official languageGreekFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m115 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensToulouse
City population643,452514,819
People per km²16,4994,352
Museums within 10 km8824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre82101
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.