VacationSelector

San Diego or Toulouse?

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

Your match

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

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

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

San DiegoToulouse
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 63 points.63
San DiegoToulouse
Score630
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km421
Coast distance1 km145 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 7 points.7
San DiegoToulouse
Score6370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre823962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2737
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 7 points.7
San DiegoToulouse
Score4451
Museums within 10 km5927
Museums within 2 km of centre3018
Share of museums within 2 km %5167
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 7 points.7
San DiegoToulouse
Score5043
Drinking venues within 4 km615389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre408343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6688
Nightclubs within 4 km3136
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 34 points.34
San DiegoToulouse
Score5521
Protected land share 50 km %61
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km308 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 9 points.9
San DiegoToulouse
Score7566
Tourist attractions within 2 km4080
Park area within 2 km308 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 11 points.11
San DiegoToulouse
Score4051
Notable places within 2 km4072
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 19 points.19
San DiegoToulouse
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget—€160
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 17 points.17
San DiegoToulouse
Score8871
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 25 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 56 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months91
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Diego
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. San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan DiegoToulouse
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MunichMUC
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 20 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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.

Before you go

MeasureSan DiegoToulouse
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
Elevation129 m115 m
Main airportSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan DiegoToulouse
City population1,386,932514,819
People per km²1,4384,352
Museums within 10 km2624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre44101
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month–

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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). 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.