VacationSelector

Strasbourg or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

The verdict

Choose Strasbourg if you want green space and countryside on the doorstep: 37% of the surrounding land is protected, and the old centre packs about twice as many notable places into walking distance.

Choose Toulouse if you want warmth and city attractions: highs reach 29°C in August, with more museums, more nightclubs and more to occupy children.

Scoreboard

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

StrasbourgToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Strasbourg and Toulouse are level on 0.
StrasbourgToulouse
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance398 km145 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 3 points.3
StrasbourgToulouse
Score6770
Restaurants within 2 km of centre780962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3637
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 10 points.10
StrasbourgToulouse
Score4151
Museums within 10 km2327
Museums within 2 km of centre1418
Share of museums within 2 km %6167
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Toulouse leads by 7 points.7
StrasbourgToulouse
Score3643
Drinking venues within 4 km305389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre264343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8788
Nightclubs within 4 km1736
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 33 points.33
StrasbourgToulouse
Score5421
Protected land share 50 km %371
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km71 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 28 points.28
StrasbourgToulouse
Score3866
Tourist attractions within 2 km980
Park area within 2 km71 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 7 points.7
StrasbourgToulouse
Score5851
Notable places within 2 km10972
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg and Toulouse are level on 62.
StrasbourgToulouse
Score6262
Price level global73.773.7
Daily budget€160€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 8 points.8
StrasbourgToulouse
Score6371
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 26.4 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 77 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months31
0255075100

Where they differ

Strasbourg is the one for getting out of town: 37% of the land around it is protected against 1% around Toulouse, and it has about twice as much park space near the centre, so green breaks and day trips into open country are easy to arrange.

Toulouse is stronger on things to do in the city itself: many times as many tourist attractions near the centre, more museums, 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Strasbourg's 1, and 2 theme parks against 1.

Where they are alike

Neither city is a place to plan a swimming holiday. Both sit inland, and neither has a month with the sea at 21°C or more, so swimming is not what either trip is about.

They are closer than they look on eating and going out: a similar range of kitchens in both, restaurants and drinking places concentrated near the centre in each, and in both the walkable core carries most of what you would want to see.

Which traveller are you?

Travelling with children: Toulouse. It has many times as many tourist attractions near the centre, 2 theme parks within reach against Strasbourg's 1, and mild enough winters at about 10°C for half-term trips.

Walkers and day-trippers: Strasbourg. With 37% of the surrounding land protected and about twice as much park space near the centre, it is the easier base for getting into open country.

A weekend of sights and eating: Strasbourg's walkable core holds about twice as many notable places, but Toulouse has more museums, more restaurants near the centre and about twice as many nightclubs if evenings matter.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information: it is a national price level, identical for both by construction, so neither is the cheaper trip on this evidence. The €160 daily budget beside it is one national estimate, not a measurement of either city.

Counts of nearby beaches also mislead here. Both are inland, and neither has a month with the sea at 21°C or more, so the 9 around Strasbourg mean inland, weather-dependent bathing at best; note too that Strasbourg's warmest months are also its wettest.

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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M
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J
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D
Daytime high, °C
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1
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. Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Strasbourg peaks in high summer, June to August, with highs of 24-26°C. That is also its wettest run, 61-77mm a month, so warm days come with showers; September is easier, 22°C and drier.

Toulouse works across a longer season: 28-29°C in midsummer on 40-45mm, 25°C still in September, and winter highs near 10°C against Strasbourg's 5°C, which makes off-season visits more comfortable. Its wettest stretch falls in spring rather than summer, the reverse of Strasbourg.

Getting there

Flying fromStrasbourgToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
NiceNCE
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LyonLYS
1 h 5 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
TunisTUN
2 h 15 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
€213-254
STR · 109 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureStrasbourgToulouse
Official languageFrenchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation132 m115 m
Main airportStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureStrasbourgToulouse
City population293,771514,819
People per km²3,7524,352
Museums within 10 km2124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre87101

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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. 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.