VacationSelector

Bucharest or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BucharestMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
BucharestMontpellier
Score032
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km38
Coast distance198 km9 km
Water distance9 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 2 points.2
BucharestMontpellier
Score6765
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4134
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 23 points.23
BucharestMontpellier
Score4926
Museums within 10 km7314
Museums within 2 km of centre403
Share of museums within 2 km %5521
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 24 points.24
BucharestMontpellier
Score6238
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5383
Nightclubs within 4 km8025
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 7 points.7
BucharestMontpellier
Score3643
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km133 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 24 points.24
BucharestMontpellier
Score6844
Tourist attractions within 2 km458
Park area within 2 km133 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 23 points.23
BucharestMontpellier
Score6138
Notable places within 2 km13035
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 23 points.23
BucharestMontpellier
Score8562
Price level global40.973.7
Daily budget€99€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
BucharestMontpellier
Score6374
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months15
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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
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
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
BordeauxBOD
3 h 10 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€181-218
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
LisbonLIS
4 h 10 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
4 h 5 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBucharestMontpellier
Official languageRomanianFrench
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m7 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestMontpellier
City population1,716,961310,240
People per km²7,5975,452
Museums within 10 km4114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6865
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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). 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. 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.

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.