Read more about Paris and Toulouse.
Toulouse is located in the Tarn region of Languedoc-Roussillon. It is a wonderful city, which many visitors strangely ignore, possibly because it is known as an aviation hub that today is home to Aerospatiale, which produces the Airbus and the Ariane space rocket.
Toulouse is where the Canal du Midi meets the Garonne River. If you are in the mood for a truly relaxing vacation, I highly recommend taking a canal barge trip with European Waterways via Gascony in Rosa.
T oulouse tourism website
Paris to Toulouse by train
- Direct TGV trains without change to Toulouse station depart from Gare Montparnasse in Paris (17 Boulevard de Vaugirard, Paris, 14th arrondissement) throughout the day. The trip lasts 5 hours and 20 minutes. Metro lines to and from Gare Montparnasse
- Line 4 – Porte de Clignancourt to Porte d’Orleans
- Line 6 – Charles de Gaulle Etoile to the nation
- Line 12 – Porte de la Chapelle a Mairie d’Issey
- Line 13 – Saint Denis / Universite et Gabriel Peri-Asnieres Gennevillers to Chatillon-Montrouge.
- Direct intercity express trains without change to Toulouse station depart from Gare d’Austerlitz, 55 quai d’Austerlitz, Paris 13.
Transport links to the Gare d’Austerlitz
- Subway
Line 10: Austerlitz to Boulogne Pont de St-Cloud
Line 5: Bobigny Pablo Picasso to Place d’Italie - Para los autobuses, vea el mapa de autobuses de París
- You can also take the TGV trains to Toulouse station via Paris Gare de Lyon (20 boulevard Diderot, Paris 12) throughout the day. But these involve changes in Montpellier or Bordeaux. Metro lines to and from Gare de Lyon
- Line 1 – La Defense to Chateau de Vincennes
- Line 14 – Saint Lazare to Bibliotheque Francois Mitterand
TGV trains to Toulouse station
- Paris to Toulouse station in 3 hours 21 minutes.
- From Lille (which connects with Eurostar), the easiest and fastest route is directly to Lyon, where you change trains (but not stations) for a direct train to Toulouse, which takes around 7 hours.
- From Charles de Gaulle Airport, the easiest and fastest route is also through Lyon, which takes around 6 hours and 15 minutes.
Other connections to Toulouse by TGV
- Popular direct connections include Lyon and Marseille.
- Toulouse has good high-speed links (not TGV) with the main French cities. Check out the main TER services on the TER website .
Toulouse station is on Boulevard Pierre Semard, in the city center.
Booking train travel in France
- From the USA: book online with Rail Europe
- From the UK: Book online with voyages sncf (ex Rail Europe UK)
Getting to Toulouse by plane
Toulouse Blagnac Airport is located 8 km (5 miles) northwest of the city. Shuttle buses run regularly from the airport to the center of Toulouse and take 20 minutes. They leave the airport every 20 minutes from outside the Arrivals area, through gate C, from 7.35am to 0.15am.
Destinations As Toulouse is the home of Airbus and a major industrial city, the connections are excellent. Destinations include all major French cities such as Paris, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Strasbourg, Nice, and more.
International destinations include most European countries and Canada.
Paris to Toulouse by car
The distance from Paris to Avignon is around 680 kms (423 miles), and the journey takes around six hours and 20 minutes, depending on your speed. There are tolls on the Autoroutes.
Car rental
For information on how to rent a car under the return lease scheme, which is the cheapest way to rent a car if you are in France for more than 17 days, try Renault Eurodrive’s buyback lease.
Compare car rental rates in Europe.
Getting from London to Paris
- By train (Eurostar)
Eurostar between London, Paris and Lille - By bus / coach Eurolines offers a cheap service from London, Gillingham, Canterbury, Folkestone and Dover to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Paris Gallieni. Six coaches a day; 2 all night; Travel time is 7 hours. The Eurolines stop is located at the Paris Gallieni bus station, 28 ave du General de Gaulle, right next to the Gallieni metro station, near Porte de Bagnolet (metro line 3, final stop).
Eurolines website for French travel - IDBus also operates between London and Lille and London and Paris. IDBus also runs from Lille to Amsterdam and Brussels.
IDBus website
