VacationSelector

Liverpool or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Liverpool
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

LiverpoolMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 28 points.28
LiverpoolMontpellier
Score6032
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km348
Coast distance2 km9 km
Water distance2 km9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 5 points.5
LiverpoolMontpellier
Score6065
Restaurants within 2 km of centre542737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3234
Museums & heritage. Liverpool leads by 17 points.17
LiverpoolMontpellier
Score4326
Museums within 10 km2314
Museums within 2 km of centre123
Share of museums within 2 km %5221
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Liverpool leads by 23 points.23
LiverpoolMontpellier
Score6138
Drinking venues within 4 km977318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre651265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6783
Nightclubs within 4 km7925
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 15 points.15
LiverpoolMontpellier
Score5843
Protected land share 50 km %—15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %6070
Park area within 2 km81 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Liverpool leads by 14 points.14
LiverpoolMontpellier
Score5844
Tourist attractions within 2 km258
Park area within 2 km81 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. Liverpool leads by 12 points.12
LiverpoolMontpellier
Score5038
Notable places within 2 km6835
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 8 points.8
LiverpoolMontpellier
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget—€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 20 points.20
LiverpoolMontpellier
Score5474
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months05
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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F
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M
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J
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Daytime high, °C
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLiverpoolMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 45 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
Puerto del RosarioFUE
4 h 5 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MPL · 8 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLiverpoolMontpellier
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
Elevation70 m7 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolMontpellier
City population513,441310,240
People per km²4,5925,452
Museums within 10 km3114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre4965
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). 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.