VacationSelector

Manchester 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

Manchester
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

ManchesterToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
ManchesterToulouse
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km101
Coast distance27 km145 km
Water distance27 km
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 2 points.2
ManchesterToulouse
Score6870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3537
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 9 points.9
ManchesterToulouse
Score4251
Museums within 10 km2327
Museums within 2 km of centre1118
Share of museums within 2 km %4867
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 19 points.19
ManchesterToulouse
Score6243
Drinking venues within 4 km1,029389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre792343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7788
Nightclubs within 4 km8236
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 15 points.15
ManchesterToulouse
Score3621
Protected land share 50 km %171
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %99100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 34 points.34
ManchesterToulouse
Score3266
Tourist attractions within 2 km580
Park area within 2 km63 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 3 points.3
ManchesterToulouse
Score4851
Notable places within 2 km6172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 8 points.8
ManchesterToulouse
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 17 points.17
ManchesterToulouse
Score5471
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManchesterToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 55 m
€109-157
TLS · 7 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 25 m
€85-124
1 stop
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

MeasureManchesterToulouse
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
Elevation38 m115 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterToulouse
City population547,627514,819
People per km²4,7374,352
Museums within 10 km2824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre63101
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.