VacationSelector

Rotterdam or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

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

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

RotterdamToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
RotterdamToulouse
Score370
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km221
Coast distance24 km145 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 2 points.2
RotterdamToulouse
Score7270
Restaurants within 2 km of centre862962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4637
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 9 points.9
RotterdamToulouse
Score6051
Museums within 10 km4127
Museums within 2 km of centre2018
Share of museums within 2 km %4967
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 6 points.6
RotterdamToulouse
Score4943
Drinking venues within 4 km542389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre378343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7088
Nightclubs within 4 km4036
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 21 points.21
RotterdamToulouse
Score4221
Protected land share 50 km %101
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %79100
Park area within 2 km61 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 4 points.4
RotterdamToulouse
Score6266
Tourist attractions within 2 km2780
Park area within 2 km61 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km82
Sights concentration. Rotterdam and Toulouse are level on 51.
RotterdamToulouse
Score5151
Notable places within 2 km7472
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 4 points.4
RotterdamToulouse
Score5862
Price level global79.273.7
Daily budget€181€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 15 points.15
RotterdamToulouse
Score5671
Monthly daytime high6.2 °C to 22.1 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromRotterdamToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
CCF · 82 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
50 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 113 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 45 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
1 h 55 m
€109-157
TLS · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureRotterdamToulouse
Official languageDutchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation10 m115 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRotterdamToulouse
City population664,311514,819
People per km²2,0804,352
Museums within 10 km4024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre77101
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.