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The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
ToulouseThe Basilica of Saint-Sernin
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Toulouse by ZbebVial, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Toulouse or Yokohama?

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

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Toulouse 66, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Toulouse 64, Yokohama 55: Toulouse leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Toulouse 56, Yokohama 44: Toulouse leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Toulouse 58, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Toulouse 72, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Toulouse 62, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Toulouse 70, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Toulouse 50, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Toulouse 46, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Toulouse 58, Yokohama 56: Toulouse leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Toulouse 27, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Toulouse and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Toulouse
53match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureToulouseYokohama
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation115 m24 m
Main airportToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre84 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureToulouseYokohama
City population514,8193,757,630
People per km²4,3528,585
Museums within 10 km2438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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.