VacationSelector

Calgary or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Montpellier
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
CalgaryMontpellier
Score032
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km48
Coast distance649 km9 km
Water distance9 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 1 points.1
CalgaryMontpellier
Score6665
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3634
Museums & heritage. Montpellier leads by 17 points.17
CalgaryMontpellier
Score926
Museums within 10 km814
Museums within 2 km of centre33
Share of museums within 2 km %3821
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 6 points.6
CalgaryMontpellier
Score4438
Drinking venues within 4 km465318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7483
Nightclubs within 4 km1925
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 7 points.7
CalgaryMontpellier
Score3643
Protected land share 50 km %415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km142 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 3 points.3
CalgaryMontpellier
Score4144
Tourist attractions within 2 km38
Park area within 2 km142 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km57
Sights concentration. Calgary leads by 1 points.1
CalgaryMontpellier
Score3938
Notable places within 2 km3735
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 8 points.8
CalgaryMontpellier
Score5462
Price level global8473.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 17 points.17
CalgaryMontpellier
Score5774
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months85
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
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
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
DublinDUB
8 h 25 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
EdinburghEDI
8 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureCalgaryMontpellier
Official languageFrench, EnglishFrench
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m7 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryMontpellier
City population1,306,784310,240
People per km²1,5835,452
Museums within 10 km1314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6765
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). 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. 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.