Toulouse
You can be here in March for about €657, 4 days, direct.
Why now
Shoulder season in March: 15°C days, 14 rainy days.
Spring and autumn are the pleasant months; summer is hot, students leave, and terraces on the Place Saint-Pierre thin out. Rugby home games at the Stade Ernest-Wallon and the Piano aux Jacobins festival in early autumn are the moments the city is visibly full.
Best months here: July, September, October. Daytime highs, sea temperature and rainy days from three years of Open-Meteo reanalysis; a rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, which is the WMO threshold and not the same as "it drizzled".
The place
Toulouse is a pink-brick city on the Garonne with a big university, Airbus on the edge of town and a rugby team that matters more than the cathedral. It is warm, southern and unhurried, with a Spanish streak in the way it eats late and lingers. It suits people who want a city with cassoulet, space, a canal towpath and no queues.
What you can do
- 01See the Basilique Saint-Sernin's Romanesque nave, then the Jacobins cloister with its palm-vaulted chancel.
- 02Eat cassoulet at a table in the Marché Victor Hugo, upstairs at lunchtime, and follow it with nothing.
- 03Tour the Airbus assembly line or the Aeroscopia museum at Blagnac, with two Concordes; book ahead.
- 04Walk or cycle the Canal du Midi towpath east from Port Saint-Sauveur under the plane trees.
- 05Take a beer at the Place Saint-Pierre at dusk, then cross the Pont Neuf to the Prairie des Filtres.
Where to stay · neighbourhoods
Stay in the centre between the Capitole and the Carmes; the streets around Matabiau station are convenient but charmless.
Unusual things
- ◦The Cité de l'espace on the eastern edge, with a full-size Ariane 5 mock-up and a Mir station.
- ◦The Hôtel d'Assézat, a Renaissance merchant's mansion housing the Bemberg collection of paintings.
- ◦The Musée des Augustins' sculpture cloister and gargoyle collection, in a former Gothic convent.
Day trips
Flight options
Routes come from OpenFlights (historical) and a 2026 route reference compiled from public timetables. Durations are the published schedule where we have it, otherwise a block-time model fitted on measured nonstop flights. Verify schedules with the airline before booking.
Entry requirements · IT passport
Source: passport-index-data, March 2026 (coarse indicator), covering 258 of our 268 destinations for each of 199 passports. Always confirm with the destination's official site.
Airports
Distances are centre to airport derived · nonstop counts are our route reference for 2026, not every flight that exists.
Local transport
- Airport to city
- Tram T2, 30 min, €1.80
- Car needed?
- No — walkable or good public transport
- Getting around
- Two metro lines and trams cover the city; the airport is 20 minutes from the centre by tram T2 or the shuttle bus. The centre is compact and bikes suit the canal.
- Clock
- Same time as Prague (Europe/Paris) derived
- Daylight
- 11.8 hours of daylight in March · sunrise 07:09, sunset 18:59 derived
- Currency
- EUR
Alternatives at a similar price
Whole trip per person for 4 days from Prague in March, then the flight time; estimates, like the total above.
Marrakech
Fuerteventura
Cyprus
Tenerife
Aqaba
Lanzarote