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The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
ToulouseThe Basilica of Saint-Sernin
The top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain

Photos: Toulouse by ZbebVial, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Toulouse or Vail?

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

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Vail for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’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, Vail 5: Toulouse leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Toulouse 66, Vail 35: Toulouse leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Toulouse 64, Vail 10: Toulouse leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Toulouse 56, Vail 30: Toulouse leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Toulouse 58, Vail 92: Vail leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Toulouse 72, Vail 45: Toulouse leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Toulouse 62, Vail 55: Toulouse leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Toulouse 70, Vail 62: Toulouse leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Toulouse 50, Vail 35: Toulouse leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Toulouse 46, Vail 5: Toulouse leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Toulouse 58, Vail 42: Toulouse leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Toulouse 27, Vail 48: Vail leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Toulouse and Vail.

Your match

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

Toulouse
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Vail
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
15 hdaylight a day

Vail in July

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.

Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Vail has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre). Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureToulouseVail
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation115 m2,445 m
Main airportToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre84 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureToulouseVail
City population514,8194,835
People per km²4,352400
Museums within 10 km241
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.