VacationSelector

Gdansk or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Gdansk
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

GdanskMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 23 points.23
GdanskMontpellier
Score5532
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km208
Coast distance1 km9 km
Water distance1 km9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 13 points.13
GdanskMontpellier
Score5265
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2834
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 31 points.31
GdanskMontpellier
Score5726
Museums within 10 km4314
Museums within 2 km of centre283
Share of museums within 2 km %6521
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Montpellier leads by 2 points.2
GdanskMontpellier
Score3638
Drinking venues within 4 km269318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7583
Nightclubs within 4 km3025
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 2 points.2
GdanskMontpellier
Score4543
Protected land share 50 km %1215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %310
Land share of disc %7070
Park area within 2 km61 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 31 points.31
GdanskMontpellier
Score7544
Tourist attractions within 2 km1088
Park area within 2 km61 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 14 points.14
GdanskMontpellier
Score5238
Notable places within 2 km7635
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 17 points.17
GdanskMontpellier
Score7962
Price level global4973.7
Daily budget€133€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 22 points.22
GdanskMontpellier
Score5274
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months35
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
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
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. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromGdanskMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€197-225
1 stop
MPL · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
MadridMAD
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
4 h 20 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

MeasureGdanskMontpellier
Official languagePolishFrench
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m7 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskMontpellier
City population487,834310,240
People per km²7145,452
Museums within 10 km3714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre4865
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). 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. 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.