Tours
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About
Tours is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 138,668 inhabitants as of 2022 while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 526,370.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tours, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Tours
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Showers
15° / 5°
2.4 mm
UV High
Sat
Rain
16° / 6°
UV High
Sun
Showers
17° / 11°
0.9 mm
UV Moderate
Mon
Rain
16° / 7°
UV High
Tue
Overcast
18° / 11°
1.8 mm
UV High
Wed
Overcast
22° / 13°
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
31° / 0°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
15.1h
06:21 – 21:25local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Tours
3 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Tours Val de Loire Airport (TUF) at 5 km.
Getting around Tours
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
VectareLEXFlixBus-euTER BreizhGoFil BleuNeckar-DonauBlaBlaCar BusFlixBus-deNomad Train (SNCF, Région Normandie)Rémi 28Rémi 37B MetroNS IntSNCF VoyageursFil Bleu (Tours)Rémi 36SNCF
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC0, Arnaud Leroy.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.