Best time to visit Toulouse

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All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Toulouse

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Go in May–Aug — these months score within a whisker of each other; 27C max, 6 rainy days. Apr is the next best.

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Things to do in Toulouse

Canal du Midi Canal in Southern France
Couvent des Jacobins Deconsecrated mother-church of the Dominicans…
Basilique Saint-Sernin A red-brick church from the 11–12th century…
Saint Raymond Museum An archaeological museum with Roman artefacts from around Toulouse as well as the…
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne This great ramshackle edifice is partly Gothic but mostly Dog's Breakfast…
Aeroscopia Museum An aircraft museum where one can see more than 20 aircraft…
Capitole Magnificent red-brick building in Neoclassical style…

Tours and tickets in Toulouse

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Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Toulouse), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.

Month by month

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Month	Max °C	Rain days	Humidity	Sun h/day	Verdict	Why
Jan	9°	9d	85%	5.0h	ok	9C max, 9 rainy days
Feb	13°	7d	81%	6.9h	ok	13C max, 7 rainy days
Mar	15°	9d	75%	8.5h	ok	15C max, 9 rainy days
Apr	18°	9d	70%	9.5h	good	18C max, 9 rainy days
May	21°	10d	71%	10.7h	sweet spot	21C max, 10 rainy days
Jun	27°	6d	66%	11.5h	sweet spot	27C max, 6 rainy days
Jul	29°	3d	61%	12.0h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Aug	30°	4d	61%	11.8h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Sep	25°	6d	66%	10.0h	goodbusy	busier than usual
Oct	21°	7d	78%	7.7h	good	21C max, 7 rainy days
Nov	14°	10d	84%	6.3h	ok	14C max, 10 rainy days
Dec	11°	10d	87%	4.8h	ok	11C max, 10 rainy days

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at the Capitole, 7 km from the airport (TLS): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest from July to September; quietest in December and January.

Then and now

Toulouse's June days now average 26.9°C, 3.7°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 6 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1981–90	9.3°	10.6°	13.3°	16.1°	19.4°	23.2°	27.0°	26.0°	24.4°	19.5°	13.6°	10.2°
2017–26	9.1°	12.6°	14.7°	18.1°	21.4°	26.9°	29.2°	29.6°	25.3°	20.5°	13.9°	11.0°
Change	-0.2°	+1.9°	+1.5°	+2.0°	+2.0°	+3.7°	+2.2°	+3.6°	+0.9°	+1.1°	+0.3°	+0.8°

The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.

Getting there

How far Toulouse is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

Before you go

Type C and E plugs at 230 / 400 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Euro. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for France: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

Being there

On arrival

Paying — Visa, Mastercard and French CB cards work in almost all shops, restaurants and hotels, and contactless is widespread. Some places post a minimum spend for cards.
UPI, for visitors from India — Only at a few places, through Lyra: Eiffel Tower tickets bought online and the Galeries Lafayette store on boulevard Haussmann in Paris. Bring a card for everything else.
Tipping — Not expected, as service is included by law; locals leave small change or a few euros for good service. Taxi tips are optional.

Getting around Toulouse

Tap a contactless bank card or phone on the Tisséo validators on the metro, trams, buses and the Téléo cable car: a trip costs €1.90 and lasts an hour, with up to four validations, and the total is charged the next day; tap again at every change. A day ticket (€7.20, until the last departures) is sold at machines in metro, tram and Téléo stations and in the Tisséo app, and bus drivers sell a €2.50 single. With tram T2 shut until the end of 2026, the Navette Aéroport runs from the airport to Matabiau station via Compans Caffarelli and Jeanne d'Arc every 15 minutes, in under 25 minutes: €9.50, paid by tapping a bank card, and valid on the whole network for 90 minutes.

Apps — Rides: Bolt, FreeNow, G7, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp.

Toulouse is a big city, but the historical centre is compact, between the Garonne River and Metro B Line. You can walk to most attractions. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Toulouse, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Help

Emergency — 112 (any emergency) · police 17 · ambulance 15 · fire 18.
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

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Toulouse in pictures

Toulouse Quercus leaves 02 — i

PierreSelim, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

GayPride 2015, Toulouse cvg 2 0151 — i

Gyrostat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Nave of Basilica Saint Sernin 2012 08 24 — i

PierreSelim, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hospital Dieu de Toulouse, Toulouse, Francia, 2023 01 06, DD 126 128 HDR — i

Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Capitolio, Toulouse, Francia, 2023 01 06, DD 117 119 HDR — i

Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Toulouse is like

Toulouse is the chief city of Haute-Garonne in the Occitanie region of France. It stands north of the Pyrenees on the River Garonne, halfway between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: The old centre of Toulouse is east of the River Garonne: it's compact and most places of interest can easily be visited on foot. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: Take a walk along the river quays. Théâtre du Capitole hosts the opera house and orchestra, Box Office +33 5 6163 1313. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: Toulouse–Blagnac Airport (TLS IATA). The airport is 8 km west of the city. It has flights at least hourly from Paris (Orly Airport and CDG). More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Toulouse, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

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Toulouse is in France, Europe. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

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