VacationSelector

Ljubljana or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Ljubljana
47
match

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

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

LjubljanaMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
LjubljanaMontpellier
Score032
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km108
Coast distance72 km9 km
Water distance9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 10 points.10
LjubljanaMontpellier
Score5565
Restaurants within 2 km of centre292737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4034
Museums & heritage. Ljubljana leads by 29 points.29
LjubljanaMontpellier
Score5526
Museums within 10 km2614
Museums within 2 km of centre233
Share of museums within 2 km %8821
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Ljubljana leads by 7 points.7
LjubljanaMontpellier
Score4538
Drinking venues within 4 km458318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6283
Nightclubs within 4 km2425
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 3 points.3
LjubljanaMontpellier
Score4043
Protected land share 50 km %1315
Landscape blanket share 50 km %510
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km75 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 6 points.6
LjubljanaMontpellier
Score3844
Tourist attractions within 2 km128
Park area within 2 km75 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 20 points.20
LjubljanaMontpellier
Score5838
Notable places within 2 km10935
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 10 points.10
LjubljanaMontpellier
Score7262
Price level global59.673.7
Daily budget€131€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 18 points.18
LjubljanaMontpellier
Score5674
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 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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Daytime high, °C
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Ljubljana
No coastline within reach
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
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. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
DubrovnikDBV
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
SplitSPU
55 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLjubljanaMontpellier
Official languageSloveneFrench
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
Elevation309 m7 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaMontpellier
City population284,293310,240
People per km²1,7365,452
Museums within 10 km1414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre6365
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. 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. 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.