VacationSelector

San Jose or Toulouse?

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

Your match

San Jose
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Toulouse
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

San JoseToulouse
Beaches & swimming. San Jose leads by 8 points.8
San JoseToulouse
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance14 km145 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 29 points.29
San JoseToulouse
Score4170
Restaurants within 2 km of centre313962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1637
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 25 points.25
San JoseToulouse
Score2651
Museums within 10 km2027
Museums within 2 km of centre918
Share of museums within 2 km %4567
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Toulouse leads by 12 points.12
San JoseToulouse
Score3143
Drinking venues within 4 km231389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3888
Nightclubs within 4 km1636
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 49 points.49
San JoseToulouse
Score7021
Protected land share 50 km %261
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %91100
Park area within 2 km101 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 33 points.33
San JoseToulouse
Score3366
Tourist attractions within 2 km280
Park area within 2 km101 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 37 points.37
San JoseToulouse
Score1451
Notable places within 2 km972
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 19 points.19
San JoseToulouse
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 14 points.14
San JoseToulouse
Score8571
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months81
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 Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Jose
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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan JoseToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LisbonLIS
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 55 m
€109-157
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
3 h 20 m
€312-356
1 stop
TLS · 7 km
DublinDUB
10 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 5 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 2026-09 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

MeasureSan JoseToulouse
Official languageFrench
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
Elevation25 m115 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseToulouse
City population1,013,240514,819
People per km²2,1674,352
Museums within 10 km1924
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre30101
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). 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.