VacationSelector

Cologne or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

CologneToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Toulouse are level on 0.
CologneToulouse
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km401
Coast distance256 km145 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 2 points.2
CologneToulouse
Score7270
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3537
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 9 points.9
CologneToulouse
Score6051
Museums within 10 km4727
Museums within 2 km of centre2718
Share of museums within 2 km %5767
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 21 points.21
CologneToulouse
Score6443
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6688
Nightclubs within 4 km9036
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 50 points.50
CologneToulouse
Score7121
Protected land share 50 km %531
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 6 points.6
CologneToulouse
Score7266
Tourist attractions within 2 km4380
Park area within 2 km118 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km62
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 2 points.2
CologneToulouse
Score5351
Notable places within 2 km8172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 2 points.2
CologneToulouse
Score6062
Price level global75.973.7
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 11 points.11
CologneToulouse
Score6071
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
3 h 20 m
€312-356
1 stop
TLS · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€203-369
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
1 h 55 m
€109-157
TLS · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€81-121
CGN · 15 km
1 h 25 m
€85-124
1 stop
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
55 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 30 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

MeasureCologneToulouse
Official languageGermanFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation59 m115 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneToulouse
City population1,024,621514,819
People per km²2,5304,352
Museums within 10 km4024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre84101

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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. 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.