⭐️ Total score | 3.45/5 (Rank #201) |
👍 Quality of life score | Good |
👶 Family score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $2,218 / mo |
📡 Internet | 🏎 Fast: 24Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Good |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🌞 Perfect: 27°C81°F (feels 29°C84°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 😊 Comfy: 60% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 46 US AQI |
💨 Air quality (annual) | 🌱 Great: 47 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Good |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Good |
🤝 Lack of racism* | Okay |
🎓 Education level* | High |
💰 Income level* | Mediocre: $3,069 / mo |
❤️ Liked by members | 👍60% liked it 👎40% disliked it |
🙊 English speaking* | Okay |
😤 People density | 🧘♀️ Low density: 4k ppl/km² (16x16m) |
🚶 Walkability | Great |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Okay |
🏥 Hospitals | Great |
😄 Happiness* | Good |
🍸 Nightlife | Good |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Great |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Good |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Great |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Great |
🎅 Startup Score | Okay |
🌍 Continent | Europe |
🚩 Country | France |
⏱ Average trip length | 8 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 24 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌥 27°C 81°F + 😊 Comfy (60%) = feels 29°C 84°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 46 US AQI 🍃 OK |
💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 👍 47 US AQI |
🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
🧔 Best neighborhood to stay | Balma |
🚀 Upcoming neighborhood | Toulouse |
🚕 Best taxi app* | |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
📱 Best wireless carrier | Free |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | EUR 100 = USD 106 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 5% |
💳 Cashless | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
☕️ Best coffee place | Café Den Toulouse |
🚰 Tap water | 👌 Yes, safe to drink |
♻️ Return rate | 👍14% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 440,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $36,826 / year |
😤 Population density | 🧘♀️ not busy: 16x16m (256m²) per person |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 46% 👱♀️ 54% |
👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 52% 👱♀️ 48% |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
💻 Online electronics shop | Amazon |
🏠 Apartment listings | SeLoger |
✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Easy Jet |
✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Air France |
🏥 Best hospital | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $2,218 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,372 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $3,067 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $876 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $630 / month |
🏢 Coworking | $127 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,617 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $76 / night |
🏡 Airbnb (median from 358 listings) | $1,542 / month |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $51 / night |
🍛 Dinner | $7 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $4 |
☕️ Coffee | $2 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Gets cold in the winter
❌ Nomad List members didn't like going here
❌ Not many Nomad List members go here
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ People don't speak English well
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 436° cold | 5513° cool | 5513° cool | 6116° cool | 6418° cool | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 6418° cool | 5211° cool | 489° cold |
Real | 468° cold | 5714° cool | 5714° cool | 6116° cool | 6317° cool | 7625° warm | 7725° warm | 7725° warm | 7625° warm | 6418° cool | 5211° cool | 5010° cold |
Humidity | damp 76% | damp 80% | nice 69% | nice 59% | nice 69% | nice 74% | nice 70% | nice 66% | nice 76% | nice 72% | damp 81% | damp 82% |
Rain | rainy 86mm | dry 44mm | dry 27mm | dry 35mm | rainy 67mm | rainy 57mm | rainy 52mm | dry 18mm | rainy 104mm | dry 28mm | rainy 70mm | rainy 102mm |
Cloud | cloudy 85% | cloudy 66% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 66% | pockets 36% | cloudy 67% | pockets 44% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 77% |
Air quality | okay 61 US AQI | okay 64 US AQI | clean 46 US AQI | clean 40 US AQI | clean 36 US AQI | clean 37 US AQI | clean 45 US AQI | clean 42 US AQI | clean 49 US AQI | clean 46 US AQI | okay 52 US AQI | okay 57 US AQI |
Sun | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | seek shade 4 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | avoid sun 6 UVI | seek shade 5 UVI | seek shade 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI |
Remote workers | 360 people | 333 people | 286 people | 400 people | 400 people | 350 people | 433 people | 460 people | 275 people | 400 people | 257 people | 475 people |
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