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The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
ToulouseThe Basilica of Saint-Sernin
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Toulouse by ZbebVial, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Toulouse or West Palm Beach?

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
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Toulouse 66, West Palm Beach 52: Toulouse leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Toulouse 64, West Palm Beach 42: Toulouse leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Toulouse 56, West Palm Beach 36: Toulouse leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Toulouse and West Palm Beach are level on 58.
Day trips. Toulouse 72, West Palm Beach 55: Toulouse leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Toulouse 62, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Toulouse 70, West Palm Beach 38: Toulouse leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Toulouse 50, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Toulouse 46, West Palm Beach 23: Toulouse leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Toulouse 58, West Palm Beach 47: Toulouse leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Toulouse 27, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Toulouse and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Toulouse
Best match
53match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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ToulouseWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureToulouseWest Palm Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation115 m6 m
Main airportToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre84 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureToulouseWest Palm Beach
City population514,819117,415
People per km²4,352786
Museums within 10 km244
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. 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.