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The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
ToulouseThe Basilica of Saint-Sernin
El Castillo above the beach at Tulum, Tulum
TulumEl Castillo above the beach at Tulum

Photos: Toulouse by ZbebVial, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tulum by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Toulouse or Tulum?

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 Toulouse for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Tulum for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Tulum’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. Toulouse 10, Tulum 88: Tulum leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Toulouse 66, Tulum 52: Toulouse leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Toulouse 64, Tulum 30: Toulouse leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Toulouse 56, Tulum 60: Tulum leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Toulouse 58, Tulum 76: Tulum leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Toulouse 72, Tulum 68: Toulouse leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Toulouse 62, Tulum 60: Toulouse leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Toulouse 70, Tulum 25: Toulouse leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Toulouse 50, Tulum 35: Toulouse leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Toulouse 46, Tulum 30: Toulouse leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Toulouse 58, Tulum 15: Toulouse leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Toulouse 27, Tulum 85: Tulum leads by 58 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Toulouse and Tulum.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Toulouse
53match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Tulum
52match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Toulouse in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
40 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Tulum in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Tulum has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre). Tulum: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureToulouseTulum
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112911
Elevation115 m5 m
Main airportToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre84 non-stop destinationsFelipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport Tulum (TQO)21 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureToulouseTulum
City population514,81933,374
People per km²4,352-
Museums within 10 km240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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). 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.