VacationSelector

Melbourne or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on value for money 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.

MelbourneToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 55 points.55
MelbourneToulouse
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km191
Coast distance4 km145 km
Water distance4 km—
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 5 points.5
MelbourneToulouse
Score7570
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,888962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2937
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 2 points.2
MelbourneToulouse
Score4951
Museums within 10 km4227
Museums within 2 km of centre2418
Share of museums within 2 km %5767
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 31 points.31
MelbourneToulouse
Score7443
Drinking venues within 4 km1,921389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6288
Nightclubs within 4 km12436
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 22 points.22
MelbourneToulouse
Score4321
Protected land share 50 km %61
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %81100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 6 points.6
MelbourneToulouse
Score6066
Tourist attractions within 2 km2680
Park area within 2 km166 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 6 points.6
MelbourneToulouse
Score5751
Notable places within 2 km10372
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 12 points.12
MelbourneToulouse
Score5062
Price level global90.273.7
Daily budget—€160
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 5 points.5
MelbourneToulouse
Score7671
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneToulouse
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
3 h 20 m
€312-356
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 2026-08 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

MeasureMelbourneToulouse
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m115 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneToulouse
City population5,350,705514,819
People per km²5354,352
Museums within 10 km4224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre86101
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.