VacationSelector

Bath or Montpellier?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Montpellier
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BathMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 24 points.24
BathMontpellier
Score832
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km18
Coast distance29 km9 km
Water distance29 km9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 19 points.19
BathMontpellier
Score4665
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2634
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 21 points.21
BathMontpellier
Score4726
Museums within 10 km2014
Museums within 2 km of centre143
Share of museums within 2 km %7021
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Montpellier leads by 2 points.2
BathMontpellier
Score3638
Drinking venues within 4 km320318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7583
Nightclubs within 4 km1125
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 1 points.1
BathMontpellier
Score4443
Protected land share 50 km %2815
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2710
Land share of disc %9270
Park area within 2 km45 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 4 points.4
BathMontpellier
Score4044
Tourist attractions within 2 km148
Park area within 2 km45 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Montpellier leads by 6 points.6
BathMontpellier
Score3238
Notable places within 2 km2535
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 8 points.8
BathMontpellier
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 19 points.19
BathMontpellier
Score5574
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months05
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
TunisTUN
2 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
Puerto del RosarioFUE
3 h 50 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBathMontpellier
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m7 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathMontpellier
City population94,092310,240
People per km²3,2455,452
Museums within 10 km1714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3865
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.