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Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie

Photos: Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Innsbruck 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 Innsbruck for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Montpellier for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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. Innsbruck 20, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Montpellier 60: Montpellier leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck 38, Montpellier 56: Montpellier leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Montpellier 72: Innsbruck leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck 72, Montpellier 85: Montpellier leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Innsbruck and Montpellier are level on 62.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Montpellier 74: Innsbruck leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Montpellier 47: Montpellier leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck 38, Montpellier 50: Montpellier leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Montpellier 63: Montpellier leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Montpellier 42: Innsbruck leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Innsbruck and Montpellier.

Your match

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

Innsbruck
53match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Innsbruck in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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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InnsbruckMontpellier

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckMontpellier
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageFrench
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
Elevation574 m7 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckMontpellier
City population132,499310,240
People per km²1,2635,452
Museums within 10 km2814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-2 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. 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. 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.