VacationSelector

Belfast or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Belfast
48
match

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

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

BelfastToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastToulouse
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km101
Coast distance1 km145 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 14 points.14
BelfastToulouse
Score5670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3137
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 22 points.22
BelfastToulouse
Score2951
Museums within 10 km1827
Museums within 2 km of centre618
Share of museums within 2 km %3367
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 5 points.5
BelfastToulouse
Score4843
Drinking venues within 4 km550389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6388
Nightclubs within 4 km2936
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 32 points.32
BelfastToulouse
Score5321
Protected land share 50 km %191
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 18 points.18
BelfastToulouse
Score4866
Tourist attractions within 2 km1680
Park area within 2 km68 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 9 points.9
BelfastToulouse
Score4251
Notable places within 2 km4372
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 8 points.8
BelfastToulouse
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 20 points.20
BelfastToulouse
Score5171
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months01
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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
CCF · 82 km
EdinburghEDI
55 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
€60-123
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 15 m
no fares
DUB · 132 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

MeasureBelfastToulouse
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m115 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastToulouse
City population345,006514,819
People per km²3,0004,352
Museums within 10 km824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre44101
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.