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Palm Springs
The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
ToulouseThe Basilica of Saint-Sernin

Photos: Toulouse by ZbebVial, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Palm Springs or Toulouse?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’s own page.

Choose Toulouse for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Toulouse’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Palm Springs 7, Toulouse 10: Toulouse leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Palm Springs 40, Toulouse 66: Toulouse leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Springs 42, Toulouse 64: Toulouse leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Palm Springs 36, Toulouse 56: Toulouse leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Springs 78, Toulouse 58: Palm Springs leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Palm Springs 38, Toulouse 72: Toulouse leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Palm Springs 40, Toulouse 62: Toulouse leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Palm Springs 22, Toulouse 70: Toulouse leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Springs 44, Toulouse 50: Toulouse leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Palm Springs 32, Toulouse 46: Toulouse leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Springs 40, Toulouse 58: Toulouse leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Springs 80, Toulouse 27: Palm Springs leads by 53 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Springs and Toulouse.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Toulouse
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Toulouse in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
40 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Palm Springs has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm SpringsToulouse
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation146 m115 m
Main airportPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre84 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm SpringsToulouse
City population44,575514,819
People per km²1814,352
Museums within 10 km324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.