VacationSelector

Inverness or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Montpellier
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

InvernessMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 4 points.4
InvernessMontpellier
Score2832
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km18
Coast distance1 km9 km
Water distance1 km9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 44 points.44
InvernessMontpellier
Score2165
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1134
Museums & heritage. Montpellier leads by 6 points.6
InvernessMontpellier
Score2026
Museums within 10 km614
Museums within 2 km of centre53
Share of museums within 2 km %8321
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Montpellier leads by 23 points.23
InvernessMontpellier
Score1538
Drinking venues within 4 km113318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8783
Nightclubs within 4 km425
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 34 points.34
InvernessMontpellier
Score943
Protected land share 50 km %1215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1110
Land share of disc %8870
Park area within 2 km3 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 44 points.44
InvernessMontpellier
Score044
Tourist attractions within 2 km38
Park area within 2 km3 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Montpellier leads by 14 points.14
InvernessMontpellier
Score2438
Notable places within 2 km1635
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 8 points.8
InvernessMontpellier
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget—€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 22 points.22
InvernessMontpellier
Score5274
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
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. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
BristolBRS
1 h 30 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 0 m
no fares
SYY · 149 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
BirminghamBHX
1 h 20 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
PGF · 127 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 40 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 2026-08 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

MeasureInvernessMontpellier
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m7 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessMontpellier
City population47,380310,240
People per km²2,2895,452
Museums within 10 km314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre1565
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.