VacationSelector

Toulouse or Zurich?

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

Your match

Toulouse
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

ToulouseZurich
Beaches & swimming. Toulouse and Zurich are level on 0.
ToulouseZurich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km123
Coast distance145 km632 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 3 points.3
ToulouseZurich
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre962974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3730
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 5 points.5
ToulouseZurich
Score5156
Museums within 10 km2776
Museums within 2 km of centre1837
Share of museums within 2 km %6749
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 11 points.11
ToulouseZurich
Score4354
Drinking venues within 4 km389676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8882
Nightclubs within 4 km3674
Nature & day trips. Zurich leads by 16 points.16
ToulouseZurich
Score2137
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 30 points.30
ToulouseZurich
Score6636
Tourist attractions within 2 km808
Park area within 2 km43 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 8 points.8
ToulouseZurich
Score5159
Notable places within 2 km72119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 27 points.27
ToulouseZurich
Score6235
Price level global73.7110.5
Daily budget€160€248
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 18 points.18
ToulouseZurich
Score7153
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 28.5 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 74 mm60 mm to 128 mm
Dry months10
0255075100

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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Toulouse
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Toulouse
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromToulouseZurich
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 55 m
€109-157
TLS · 7 km
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 20 m
€312-356
1 stop
TLS · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 30 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 81 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 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

MeasureToulouseZurich
Official languageFrenchFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation115 m408 m
Main airportToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureToulouseZurich
City population514,819452,421
People per km²4,3525,147
Museums within 10 km2463
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre10178

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.