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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Krakow 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 Krakow for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Montpellier for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

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. Krakow 9, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Montpellier 60: Krakow leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Montpellier 56: Krakow leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Montpellier 72: Montpellier leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Montpellier 85: Montpellier leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Montpellier 62: Montpellier leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Krakow and Montpellier are level on 74.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Montpellier 47: Krakow leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Montpellier 50: Krakow leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Montpellier 63: Montpellier leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Montpellier 42: Montpellier leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Montpellier.

Your match

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

Krakow
58match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches 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.

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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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KrakowMontpellier

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowMontpellier
Official languagePolishFrench
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m7 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowMontpellier
City population804,237310,240
People per km²2,4595,452
Museums within 10 km11314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
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). 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. 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.

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.