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Thessaloniki or Toulouse?

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

Your match

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

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

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

ThessalonikiToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
ThessalonikiToulouse
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance0 km145 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 20 points.20
ThessalonikiToulouse
Score5070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre640962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1537
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 2 points.2
ThessalonikiToulouse
Score4951
Museums within 10 km3427
Museums within 2 km of centre2218
Share of museums within 2 km %6567
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 24 points.24
ThessalonikiToulouse
Score6743
Drinking venues within 4 km1,407389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre805343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5788
Nightclubs within 4 km6136
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 44 points.44
ThessalonikiToulouse
Score6521
Protected land share 50 km %251
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km39 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 25 points.25
ThessalonikiToulouse
Score4166
Tourist attractions within 2 km1680
Park area within 2 km39 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 5 points.5
ThessalonikiToulouse
Score5651
Notable places within 2 km9872
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 12 points.12
ThessalonikiToulouse
Score7462
Price level global55.873.7
Daily budget€125€160
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 1 points.1
ThessalonikiToulouse
Score7271
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 32.1 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 56 mm37 mm to 74 mm
Dry months91
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3
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. Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromThessalonikiToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
€155-238
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
HeraklionHER
1 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
3 h 20 m
€312-356
1 stop
TLS · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
4 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 2026-09 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

MeasureThessalonikiToulouse
Official languageGreekFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m115 m
Main airportThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureThessalonikiToulouse
City population309,617514,819
People per km²16,0424,352
Museums within 10 km3124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre45101
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.