VacationSelector

Cardiff 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

Cardiff
48
match

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

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on good for families 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.

CardiffToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
CardiffToulouse
Score460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km81
Coast distance2 km145 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 10 points.10
CardiffToulouse
Score6070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3237
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 12 points.12
CardiffToulouse
Score3951
Museums within 10 km6127
Museums within 2 km of centre618
Share of museums within 2 km %1067
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 5 points.5
CardiffToulouse
Score4843
Drinking venues within 4 km536389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7488
Nightclubs within 4 km3536
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 29 points.29
CardiffToulouse
Score5021
Protected land share 50 km %181
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 34 points.34
CardiffToulouse
Score3266
Tourist attractions within 2 km480
Park area within 2 km88 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 6 points.6
CardiffToulouse
Score4551
Notable places within 2 km5172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 8 points.8
CardiffToulouse
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 17 points.17
CardiffToulouse
Score5471
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
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
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LyonLYS
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 50 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

MeasureCardiffToulouse
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
Elevation41 m115 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffToulouse
City population383,536514,819
People per km²2,7344,352
Museums within 10 km924
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre55101
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.