VacationSelector

Hamburg or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife 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.

HamburgMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
HamburgMontpellier
Score032
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km168
Coast distance22 km9 km
Water distance9 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 8 points.8
HamburgMontpellier
Score7365
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,150737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3834
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 34 points.34
HamburgMontpellier
Score6026
Museums within 10 km9414
Museums within 2 km of centre503
Share of museums within 2 km %5321
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 30 points.30
HamburgMontpellier
Score6838
Drinking venues within 4 km1,339318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre834265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6283
Nightclubs within 4 km11925
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 3 points.3
HamburgMontpellier
Score4043
Protected land share 50 km %1415
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1010
Land share of disc %9970
Park area within 2 km89 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 16 points.16
HamburgMontpellier
Score6044
Tourist attractions within 2 km408
Park area within 2 km89 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 21 points.21
HamburgMontpellier
Score5938
Notable places within 2 km11835
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 2 points.2
HamburgMontpellier
Score6062
Price level global75.973.7
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 19 points.19
HamburgMontpellier
Score5574
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall39 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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€193
HAM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
BastiaBIA
2 h 0 m
no fares
HAJ · 123 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 15 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 50 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

MeasureHamburgMontpellier
Official languageGermanFrench
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
Elevation6 m7 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgMontpellier
City population1,910,160310,240
People per km²2,5305,452
Museums within 10 km7714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8365
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.