VacationSelector

Ottawa or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Ottawa
43
match

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

Toulouse
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

OttawaToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Ottawa and Toulouse are level on 0.
OttawaToulouse
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance423 km145 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 6 points.6
OttawaToulouse
Score6470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3437
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 19 points.19
OttawaToulouse
Score3251
Museums within 10 km1527
Museums within 2 km of centre818
Share of museums within 2 km %5367
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 1 points.1
OttawaToulouse
Score4443
Drinking venues within 4 km432389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7088
Nightclubs within 4 km3536
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 20 points.20
OttawaToulouse
Score4121
Protected land share 50 km %81
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km122 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 20 points.20
OttawaToulouse
Score4666
Tourist attractions within 2 km1180
Park area within 2 km122 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 1 points.1
OttawaToulouse
Score5051
Notable places within 2 km7172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 8 points.8
OttawaToulouse
Score5462
Price level global8473.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 18 points.18
OttawaToulouse
Score5371
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
No sunshine record
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. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOttawaToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 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

MeasureOttawaToulouse
Official languageFrench, EnglishFrench
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation70 m115 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaToulouse
City population1,017,449514,819
People per km²3664,352
Museums within 10 km2024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre62101

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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). 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.