VacationSelector

Nice or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Nice
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Nice if the sea matters: 70 beaches within reach and four months warm enough to swim, with protected countryside behind the city for day trips.

Choose Toulouse if you are travelling with children or want the city itself to be the trip: many more attractions near the centre, more notable places within walking distance, and a steadier spread of usable months.

Scoreboard

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

NiceToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 73 points.73
NiceToulouse
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km701
Coast distance1 km145 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 1 points.1
NiceToulouse
Score6970
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,231962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2837
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 5 points.5
NiceToulouse
Score4651
Museums within 10 km2727
Museums within 2 km of centre1418
Share of museums within 2 km %5267
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Nice leads by 1 points.1
NiceToulouse
Score4443
Drinking venues within 4 km428389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9188
Nightclubs within 4 km2636
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 36 points.36
NiceToulouse
Score5721
Protected land share 50 km %241
Landscape blanket share 50 km %200
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 36 points.36
NiceToulouse
Score3066
Tourist attractions within 2 km480
Park area within 2 km56 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 4 points.4
NiceToulouse
Score4751
Notable places within 2 km6072
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice and Toulouse are level on 62.
NiceToulouse
Score6262
Price level global73.773.7
Daily budget€160€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 3 points.3
NiceToulouse
Score7471
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months31
0255075100

Where they differ

Nice has 70 beaches nearby against Toulouse's single one, and four months with the sea at 21°C or more where Toulouse has none. It also has far more protected land around it, 24% against 1%, plus somewhat more park space near the centre, so days out of the city are the stronger option.

Toulouse has many times as many tourist attractions near the centre, which is what makes it the easier city with children, though Nice has 3 theme parks within reach against Toulouse's 2.

Where they are alike

Eating out is a near draw. Nice has somewhat more restaurants near the centre, while Toulouse offers a somewhat wider range of kitchens.

The rest sits close too. Both have similar numbers of places to drink, with Toulouse holding somewhat more nightclubs. Museum counts are much alike, and each has 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach, though Toulouse's museums and notable places cluster more tightly around the centre.

Which traveller are you?

Families are better served by Toulouse: it has many times as many tourist attractions near the centre, and the notable places sit close enough together to cover on foot with short legs in the group.

Anyone planning a trip around swimming should take Nice, with 70 beaches nearby and four months of sea at 21°C or more, against a single beach and no swimming season in Toulouse.

Museum-goers and evening wanderers can pick either. Toulouse's museums and sights cluster more tightly around the centre and it has somewhat more nightclubs; Nice counters with more restaurants near the centre.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information: that figure is a national price level and is identical for both by construction. The €160 daily budget beside it is one national estimate rather than a measurement of Nice or Toulouse, so neither city is the cheaper trip on this evidence.

Nice's beach strength and its best months coincide in July and August, so the shore will be busiest exactly when you would most want it. Rain then arrives in force in autumn, above 120mm, while the sea is still warm enough to swim in.

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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Nice peaks from June to August: highs of 25-28°C, sea at 21-25°C and just 13mm of rain in July. The sea stays swimmable into early autumn, well after the driest weeks. Late autumn is the wettest stretch, with rainfall climbing above 120mm.

Toulouse holds up better in the shoulder months. September still reaches 25°C with 46mm of rain, drier than the 74mm of late spring, while winter highs fall to 10°C and rain stays moderate year-round.

Getting there

Flying fromNiceToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 6 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LilleLIL
1 h 40 m
€162-220
NCE · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 6 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 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

MeasureNiceToulouse
Official languageFrenchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m115 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceToulouse
City population357,737514,819
People per km²4,9754,352
Museums within 10 km1624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre65101
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months–

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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). 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.