VacationSelector

Bologna or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Montpellier
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.

BolognaMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
BolognaMontpellier
Score032
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km28
Coast distance74 km9 km
Water distance—9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 7 points.7
BolognaMontpellier
Score5865
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2034
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 41 points.41
BolognaMontpellier
Score6726
Museums within 10 km5814
Museums within 2 km of centre433
Share of museums within 2 km %7421
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 15 points.15
BolognaMontpellier
Score5338
Drinking venues within 4 km720318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7483
Nightclubs within 4 km3025
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 4 points.4
BolognaMontpellier
Score3943
Protected land share 50 km %715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km119 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 11 points.11
BolognaMontpellier
Score5544
Tourist attractions within 2 km328
Park area within 2 km119 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 22 points.22
BolognaMontpellier
Score6038
Notable places within 2 km12035
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BolognaMontpellier
Score6862
Price level global64.973.7
Daily budget€155€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 7 points.7
BolognaMontpellier
Score6774
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months55
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 45 m
no fares
FLR · 77 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€220-255
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
TunisTUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
7 h 45 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBolognaMontpellier
Official languageItalianFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m7 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaMontpellier
City population387,971310,240
People per km²2,7545,452
Museums within 10 km6614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre6265
Swim season, months above 21 °C–2 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.