VacationSelector

Porto or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

PortoToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
PortoToulouse
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km521
Coast distance4 km145 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 2 points.2
PortoToulouse
Score6870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,172962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2737
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 20 points.20
PortoToulouse
Score7151
Museums within 10 km10127
Museums within 2 km of centre5718
Share of museums within 2 km %5667
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Porto leads by 15 points.15
PortoToulouse
Score5843
Drinking venues within 4 km900389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6388
Nightclubs within 4 km3836
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 12 points.12
PortoToulouse
Score3321
Protected land share 50 km %71
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km30 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 1 points.1
PortoToulouse
Score6566
Tourist attractions within 2 km12280
Park area within 2 km30 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 3 points.3
PortoToulouse
Score5451
Notable places within 2 km8572
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 12 points.12
PortoToulouse
Score7462
Price level global55.973.7
Daily budget€109€160
Year-round weather. Porto and Toulouse are level on 71.
PortoToulouse
Score7171
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months31
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
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
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromPortoToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€109-157
TLS · 7 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 45 m
no fares
OPO · 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 2026-08 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

MeasurePortoToulouse
Official languagePortugueseFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation104 m115 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoToulouse
City population231,800514,819
People per km²5,5994,352
Museums within 10 km4224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre70101
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). 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.