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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Havana or Montpellier?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Havana for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’s own page.

Choose Montpellier for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Montpellier’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Havana and Montpellier are level on 64.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Montpellier 60: Havana leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Montpellier 56: Havana leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Montpellier 72: Montpellier leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Montpellier 85: Montpellier leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Montpellier 62: Montpellier leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Montpellier 74: Montpellier leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Montpellier 47: Montpellier leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Montpellier 50: Havana leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Montpellier 63: Havana leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Montpellier 42: Montpellier leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Montpellier.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Havana
47match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Montpellier in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
17 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Havana has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaMontpellier
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105112
Elevation59 m7 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaMontpellier
City population2,492,618310,240
People per km²3,4235,452
Museums within 10 km1214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.