VacationSelector

Boston or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Boston
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

BostonMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 28 points.28
BostonMontpellier
Score6032
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km688
Coast distance1 km9 km
Water distance1 km9 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 8 points.8
BostonMontpellier
Score7365
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3234
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 17 points.17
BostonMontpellier
Score4326
Museums within 10 km7914
Museums within 2 km of centre273
Share of museums within 2 km %3421
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Boston leads by 20 points.20
BostonMontpellier
Score5838
Drinking venues within 4 km886318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5883
Nightclubs within 4 km4325
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 10 points.10
BostonMontpellier
Score5343
Protected land share 50 km %1215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %7770
Park area within 2 km116 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 9 points.9
BostonMontpellier
Score5344
Tourist attractions within 2 km288
Park area within 2 km116 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 20 points.20
BostonMontpellier
Score5838
Notable places within 2 km11135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 19 points.19
BostonMontpellier
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 18 points.18
BostonMontpellier
Score5674
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MunichMUC
7 h 55 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LisbonLIS
6 h 40 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
1 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 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

MeasureBostonMontpellier
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m7 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonMontpellier
City population675,647310,240
People per km²2,9105,452
Museums within 10 km5114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7465
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.