VacationSelector

Seattle or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

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

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

SeattleToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
SeattleToulouse
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1001
Coast distance1 km145 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 5 points.5
SeattleToulouse
Score7570
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,460962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3537
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 15 points.15
SeattleToulouse
Score3651
Museums within 10 km2827
Museums within 2 km of centre1718
Share of museums within 2 km %6167
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 14 points.14
SeattleToulouse
Score5743
Drinking venues within 4 km873389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre696343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8088
Nightclubs within 4 km3436
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 19 points.19
SeattleToulouse
Score4021
Protected land share 50 km %91
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 20 points.20
SeattleToulouse
Score4666
Tourist attractions within 2 km1780
Park area within 2 km63 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 1 points.1
SeattleToulouse
Score5251
Notable places within 2 km7672
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 19 points.19
SeattleToulouse
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 10 points.10
SeattleToulouse
Score6171
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months31
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Seattle
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. Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeattleToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MunichMUC
10 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 0 m
no fares
YYJ · 142 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
3 h 20 m
€312-356
1 stop
TLS · 7 km
DublinDUB
9 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
DohaDOH
14 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
6 h 30 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

MeasureSeattleToulouse
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
Elevation40 m115 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleToulouse
City population737,015514,819
People per km²1,9964,352
Museums within 10 km2724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre78101
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.