VacationSelector

Bruges or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Toulouse
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on year-round weather and 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.

BrugesToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesToulouse
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance14 km145 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 13 points.13
BrugesToulouse
Score5770
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3237
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 6 points.6
BrugesToulouse
Score5751
Museums within 10 km3027
Museums within 2 km of centre2418
Share of museums within 2 km %8067
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Toulouse leads by 9 points.9
BrugesToulouse
Score3443
Drinking venues within 4 km292389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8088
Nightclubs within 4 km836
Nature & day trips. Bruges leads by 5 points.5
BrugesToulouse
Score2621
Protected land share 50 km %21
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km59 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 6 points.6
BrugesToulouse
Score6066
Tourist attractions within 2 km5280
Park area within 2 km59 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 11 points.11
BrugesToulouse
Score4051
Notable places within 2 km4072
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 2 points.2
BrugesToulouse
Score6062
Price level global76.273.7
Daily budget€180€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 15 points.15
BrugesToulouse
Score5671
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months11
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
1 h 55 m
€109-157
TLS · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
3 h 20 m
€312-356
1 stop
TLS · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
1 h 25 m
€85-124
1 stop
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
LIL · 72 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 94 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

MeasureBrugesToulouse
Official languageFrench, German, DutchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m115 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesToulouse
City population118,509514,819
People per km²8404,352
Museums within 10 km3824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre51101
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). 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.