VacationSelector

Madrid or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

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

Toulouse
48
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

MadridToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Madrid and Toulouse are level on 0.
MadridToulouse
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance305 km145 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 13 points.13
MadridToulouse
Score8370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,508962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2837
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 24 points.24
MadridToulouse
Score7551
Museums within 10 km9727
Museums within 2 km of centre5918
Share of museums within 2 km %6167
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 38 points.38
MadridToulouse
Score8143
Drinking venues within 4 km2,414389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6288
Nightclubs within 4 km34136
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 42 points.42
MadridToulouse
Score6321
Protected land share 50 km %191
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km187 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 11 points.11
MadridToulouse
Score7766
Tourist attractions within 2 km6180
Park area within 2 km187 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 24 points.24
MadridToulouse
Score7551
Notable places within 2 km28872
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 9 points.9
MadridToulouse
Score7162
Price level global60.873.7
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 1 points.1
MadridToulouse
Score7271
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months71
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 14 km
1 h 55 m
€109-157
TLS · 7 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 14 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 15 m
€99-166
MAD · 14 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureMadridToulouse
Official languageSpanishFrench
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
Elevation663 m115 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridToulouse
City population3,506,730514,819
People per km²5,8014,352
Museums within 10 km8824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre106101

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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.