VacationSelector

Granada or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Granada
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

GranadaMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
GranadaMontpellier
Score032
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance48 km9 km
Water distance9 km
Places to eat. Granada leads by 2 points.2
GranadaMontpellier
Score6765
Restaurants within 2 km of centre872737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3434
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 22 points.22
GranadaMontpellier
Score4826
Museums within 10 km2814
Museums within 2 km of centre263
Share of museums within 2 km %9321
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Granada leads by 14 points.14
GranadaMontpellier
Score5238
Drinking venues within 4 km637318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7883
Nightclubs within 4 km4625
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 20 points.20
GranadaMontpellier
Score6343
Protected land share 50 km %2715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %9670
Park area within 2 km46 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 12 points.12
GranadaMontpellier
Score5644
Tourist attractions within 2 km608
Park area within 2 km46 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Granada leads by 6 points.6
GranadaMontpellier
Score4438
Notable places within 2 km5035
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 9 points.9
GranadaMontpellier
Score7162
Price level global60.873.7
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Granada and Montpellier are level on 74.
GranadaMontpellier
Score7474
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months75
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Granada
No coastline within reach
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
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
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
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. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaMontpellier
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 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 2026-08 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

MeasureGranadaMontpellier
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation693 m7 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaMontpellier
City population233,975310,240
People per km²2,6595,452
Museums within 10 km1914
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre6265
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). 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. 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.