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The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art
The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
ToulouseThe Basilica of Saint-Sernin

Photos: Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Toulouse by ZbebVial, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’s own page.

Choose Toulouse for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • families

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. Santa Fe 5, Toulouse 10: Toulouse leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Santa Fe 62, Toulouse 66: Toulouse leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Fe 66, Toulouse 64: Santa Fe leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Santa Fe 22, Toulouse 56: Toulouse leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Fe 80, Toulouse 58: Santa Fe leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Santa Fe 70, Toulouse 72: Toulouse leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Santa Fe 45, Toulouse 62: Toulouse leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Santa Fe 40, Toulouse 70: Toulouse leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Fe 62, Toulouse 50: Santa Fe leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Santa Fe 30, Toulouse 46: Toulouse leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Fe 55, Toulouse 58: Toulouse leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Fe 55, Toulouse 27: Santa Fe leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santa Fe and Toulouse.

Your match

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

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Toulouse
Best match
53match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Toulouse in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
40 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
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

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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. Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta FeToulouse
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,134 m115 m
Main airportSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre84 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSanta FeToulouse
City population87,505514,819
People per km²6454,352
Museums within 10 km1024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.