VacationSelector

Sydney or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

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

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on value for money and good for families 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.

SydneyToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
SydneyToulouse
Score600
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km1601
Coast distance7 km145 km
Water distance7 km—
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 8 points.8
SydneyToulouse
Score7870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,205962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3137
Museums & heritage. Sydney and Toulouse are level on 51.
SydneyToulouse
Score5151
Museums within 10 km4427
Museums within 2 km of centre2018
Share of museums within 2 km %4567
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 32 points.32
SydneyToulouse
Score7543
Drinking venues within 4 km2,050389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,405343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6988
Nightclubs within 4 km12036
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 37 points.37
SydneyToulouse
Score5821
Protected land share 50 km %101
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km115 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 2 points.2
SydneyToulouse
Score6466
Tourist attractions within 2 km3780
Park area within 2 km115 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 9 points.9
SydneyToulouse
Score6051
Notable places within 2 km12372
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 12 points.12
SydneyToulouse
Score5062
Price level global90.273.7
Daily budget—€160
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 10 points.10
SydneyToulouse
Score8171
Monthly daytime high17.7 °C to 27.7 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 121 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months01
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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8
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. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSydneyToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
DohaDOH
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
3 h 20 m
€312-356
1 stop
TLS · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 45 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

MeasureSydneyToulouse
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation6 m115 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSydneyToulouse
City population5,450,496514,819
People per km²4494,352
Museums within 10 km3824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre79101
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months–

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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.