VacationSelector

Cannes 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, 1 point apart

Cannes
49
match

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

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Cannes if the sea is the point: dozens of beaches within reach and four months warm enough to swim in, with a compact centre you can cover on foot.

Choose Toulouse if you want a city rather than a shore: about twice as many restaurants near the centre, far more attractions and park space for children, and roughly twice as many places to drink and dance.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CannesToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesToulouse
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km681
Coast distance1 km145 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 20 points.20
CannesToulouse
Score5070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1937
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 15 points.15
CannesToulouse
Score3651
Museums within 10 km3127
Museums within 2 km of centre518
Share of museums within 2 km %1667
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Toulouse leads by 15 points.15
CannesToulouse
Score2843
Drinking venues within 4 km188389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8788
Nightclubs within 4 km1936
Nature & day trips. Cannes leads by 12 points.12
CannesToulouse
Score3321
Protected land share 50 km %171
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 41 points.41
CannesToulouse
Score2566
Tourist attractions within 2 km780
Park area within 2 km13 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 5 points.5
CannesToulouse
Score5651
Notable places within 2 km9572
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes and Toulouse are level on 62.
CannesToulouse
Score6262
Price level global73.773.7
Daily budget€160€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 3 points.3
CannesToulouse
Score7471
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months31
0255075100

Where they differ

Cannes is the beach trip: 68 beaches nearby against Toulouse's 1, and four months with the sea at 21°C or more, where Toulouse has none. Nothing inland replaces that.

Toulouse is the better city for eating, with about twice as many restaurants near the centre and a much wider range of kitchens. For families it is well ahead too: many times as many tourist attractions near the centre and about three times as much park space, though Cannes has 3 theme parks within reach against Toulouse's 2.

Where they are alike

The weather is the closest thing between them. Both peak in August, at 28°C in Cannes and 29°C in Toulouse, and both cool to January highs of 13°C against 10°C. Either works across a long season rather than one summer fortnight.

Both also keep their main sights close together, walkable from the centre in a day or two, and neither is a strong base for trips out of town: the country around each is not the reason to go.

Which traveller are you?

If your holiday is built around swimming and sitting on sand, Cannes is the only real answer here: 68 beaches within reach and four months when the sea is at 21°C or more.

Families with young children will find more to do in Toulouse, with many times as many attractions near the centre and roughly three times the park space, though Cannes holds 3 theme parks within reach.

Anyone travelling to eat and stay out late should take Toulouse. It has about twice as many restaurants near the centre and a wider spread of kitchens, plus roughly twice as many bars and clubs, most of them central.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value figures for these two are the same by construction: they come from a national price level, not from either city, so the comparison between them tells you nothing about which trip costs less. The €160 a day shown beside each is one national estimate rather than a measurement of Cannes or Toulouse.

Cannes's beach and weather strengths also stack into the same short window: the warmest sea and the driest weeks fall in the same two midsummer months, and in a town of 74,400 people those are the busiest ones. Outside them, its autumn is the wettest stretch on either chart.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Cannes is at its best in July and August: highs of 28°C, sea at 24-25°C and little rain, 13-18mm. Swimming holds into September, but autumn turns heavy, above 100mm a month.

Toulouse's window is wider and less tied to the sea, running through summer into September at 25°C with rain near 46mm. Its wettest warm month is May, around 74mm, and its winters run colder, with the coldest days of either city.

Getting there

Flying fromCannesToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LilleLIL
1 h 40 m
€162-220
NCE · 20 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 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

MeasureCannesToulouse
Official languageFrenchFrench
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
Elevation0 m115 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesToulouse
City population74,350514,819
People per km²3,7934,352
Museums within 10 km1624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre38101
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.