VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Toulouse
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

HeidelbergToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Heidelberg and Toulouse are level on 0.
HeidelbergToulouse
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km61
Coast distance406 km145 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 23 points.23
HeidelbergToulouse
Score4770
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2637
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergToulouse
Score5951
Museums within 10 km5427
Museums within 2 km of centre2318
Share of museums within 2 km %4367
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Toulouse leads by 16 points.16
HeidelbergToulouse
Score2743
Drinking venues within 4 km201389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8488
Nightclubs within 4 km836
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 53 points.53
HeidelbergToulouse
Score7421
Protected land share 50 km %521
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 23 points.23
HeidelbergToulouse
Score4366
Tourist attractions within 2 km2980
Park area within 2 km20 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 15 points.15
HeidelbergToulouse
Score3651
Notable places within 2 km3172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 2 points.2
HeidelbergToulouse
Score6062
Price level global75.973.7
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 10 points.10
HeidelbergToulouse
Score6171
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
3 h 20 m
€312-356
1 stop
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€226-277
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
1 h 55 m
€109-157
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 30 m
no fares
HHN · 120 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 69 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHeidelbergToulouse
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
Elevation114 m115 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergToulouse
City population162,960514,819
People per km²1,4964,352
Museums within 10 km1724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre45101

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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.