VacationSelector

Lisbon or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Montpellier
47
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LisbonMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 25 points.25
LisbonMontpellier
Score5732
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km248
Coast distance2 km9 km
Water distance2 km9 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 15 points.15
LisbonMontpellier
Score8065
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3134
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 44 points.44
LisbonMontpellier
Score7026
Museums within 10 km12414
Museums within 2 km of centre543
Share of museums within 2 km %4421
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 27 points.27
LisbonMontpellier
Score6538
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7883
Nightclubs within 4 km6525
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 13 points.13
LisbonMontpellier
Score5643
Protected land share 50 km %1115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %5470
Park area within 2 km77 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 25 points.25
LisbonMontpellier
Score6944
Tourist attractions within 2 km828
Park area within 2 km77 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 28 points.28
LisbonMontpellier
Score6638
Notable places within 2 km16935
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
LisbonMontpellier
Score7462
Price level global55.973.7
Daily budget€109€160
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonMontpellier
Score7874
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months45
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 50 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€222-263
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
TunisTUN
2 h 40 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
€532-732
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
11 h 35 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

MeasureLisbonMontpellier
Official languagePortugueseFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m7 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonMontpellier
City population545,796310,240
People per km²5,4535,452
Museums within 10 km7814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre10665
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. 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). 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. 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.