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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
ToulouseThe Basilica of Saint-Sernin

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Toulouse by ZbebVial, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Plata 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 Puerto Plata for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Toulouse for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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. Puerto Plata 80, Toulouse 10: Puerto Plata leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Toulouse 66: Toulouse leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Toulouse 64: Toulouse leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Toulouse 56: Toulouse leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Toulouse 58: Puerto Plata leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Toulouse 72: Toulouse leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Toulouse 62: Toulouse leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Toulouse 70: Toulouse leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Toulouse 50: Toulouse leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Toulouse 46: Puerto Plata leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Toulouse 58: Toulouse leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Toulouse 27: Puerto Plata leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and Toulouse.

Your match

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

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Toulouse
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Toulouse in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
40 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Puerto Plata 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. Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataToulouse
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m115 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre84 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataToulouse
City population-514,819
People per km²-4,352
Museums within 10 km124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.