VacationSelector

Toulouse or Valencia?

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

Your match

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on good for families with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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 Toulouse if you are travelling with children. Its attractions cluster close to the centre, there are 2 theme parks within reach, and none of the trip depends on the sea.

Choose Valencia if you want swimming, a broader choice of places to eat and drink, and open country nearby. It has 12 beaches close at hand, warm sea from late spring, and a mild winter.

Scoreboard

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

ToulouseValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
ToulouseValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km112
Coast distance145 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 8 points.8
ToulouseValencia
Score7078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9621,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3733
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 4 points.4
ToulouseValencia
Score5155
Museums within 10 km2759
Museums within 2 km of centre1826
Share of museums within 2 km %6744
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 27 points.27
ToulouseValencia
Score4370
Drinking venues within 4 km3891,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8863
Nightclubs within 4 km36108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 32 points.32
ToulouseValencia
Score2153
Protected land share 50 km %110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km43 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 24 points.24
ToulouseValencia
Score6642
Tourist attractions within 2 km8012
Park area within 2 km43 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 1 points.1
ToulouseValencia
Score5152
Notable places within 2 km7278
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
ToulouseValencia
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 13 points.13
ToulouseValencia
Score7184
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 28.5 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 74 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months18
0255075100

Where they differ

Toulouse is the stronger base for families: many more tourist attractions sit near the centre than in Valencia, and it has 2 theme parks within reach where Valencia has none.

Valencia leads on water, open space and evenings out. It has 12 beaches nearby against Toulouse's 1, and 5 months of sea at 21°C or above. Around 10% of the land around it is protected against 1% around Toulouse, with more park space near the centre, and it has roughly three times as many bars and clubs.

Where they are alike

Both centres carry a similar number of notable places within walking distance, so in either you can fill a day on foot without much planning.

Their museums land close together too: Valencia has more of them, while Toulouse's sit more tightly around the centre, and each has 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach. Eating out offers a similar range of kitchens in both, though Valencia has more restaurants near the middle.

Which traveller are you?

Travelling with children: Toulouse. Its attractions sit close together near the centre in a way Valencia's do not, there are 2 theme parks within reach, and summer highs of 26-29°C are warm without being extreme.

Swimming and late nights: Valencia. It has 12 beaches nearby, sea at 26°C in August, and about three times as many bars and clubs as Toulouse, most of them near the centre.

A walking city break outside summer: either centre works on foot and the museum offering is comparable, but Valencia stays mild while Toulouse's winter is cold enough to push you indoors.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €160 and €122, are national estimates for France and Spain rather than measurements of Toulouse or Valencia. A large or heavily visited city can sit well away from its own country's average, so the gap between the two is not evidence that one trip will cost more than the other.

Valencia's beach advantage is concentrated in the months everyone else travels: the sea is warmest in August, when the city is at its busiest. Its warm autumn is also its wettest stretch, near 70mm, so a late trip trades crowds for rain.

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
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Toulouse
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Toulouse is worth the trip from June to September, when highs run 26-29°C and midsummer is the driest part of its year at 40-46mm. Spring is wetter, and January highs of 10°C rule out the winter.

Valencia holds up far longer. May and June bring 24-28°C with little rain and sea near 22°C; autumn stays warm but turns wet, around 66-70mm. Winter days still reach 17°C, which makes it the sounder choice outside summer.

Getting there

Flying fromToulouseValencia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

MeasureToulouseValencia
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation115 m15 m
Main airportToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureToulouseValencia
City population514,819840,792
People per km²4,3526,242
Museums within 10 km2446
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre10192
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.