VacationSelector

Faro or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Faro
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

FaroMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 29 points.29
FaroMontpellier
Score6132
Swim season months32
Beaches 10 km138
Coast distance0 km9 km
Water distance0 km9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 21 points.21
FaroMontpellier
Score4465
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2234
Museums & heritage. Montpellier leads by 4 points.4
FaroMontpellier
Score2226
Museums within 10 km914
Museums within 2 km of centre83
Share of museums within 2 km %8921
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Montpellier leads by 17 points.17
FaroMontpellier
Score2138
Drinking venues within 4 km143318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8683
Nightclubs within 4 km825
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 14 points.14
FaroMontpellier
Score5743
Protected land share 50 km %1115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %4270
Park area within 2 km34 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 8 points.8
FaroMontpellier
Score3644
Tourist attractions within 2 km108
Park area within 2 km34 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Montpellier leads by 16 points.16
FaroMontpellier
Score2238
Notable places within 2 km1435
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 12 points.12
FaroMontpellier
Score7462
Price level global55.973.7
Daily budget€109€160
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 9 points.9
FaroMontpellier
Score8374
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months65
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroMontpellier
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MPL · 8 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

MeasureFaroMontpellier
Official languagePortugueseFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m7 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroMontpellier
City population64,560310,240
People per km²3195,452
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3465
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months2 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). 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. 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.