VacationSelector

London or Montpellier?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

LondonMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
LondonMontpellier
Score032
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km478
Coast distance43 km9 km
Water distance—9 km
Places to eat. London leads by 23 points.23
LondonMontpellier
Score8865
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4034
Museums & heritage. London leads by 46 points.46
LondonMontpellier
Score7226
Museums within 10 km14814
Museums within 2 km of centre493
Share of museums within 2 km %3321
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. London leads by 57 points.57
LondonMontpellier
Score9538
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4683
Nightclubs within 4 km31225
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 3 points.3
LondonMontpellier
Score4043
Protected land share 50 km %1615
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1410
Land share of disc %9770
Park area within 2 km84 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 31 points.31
LondonMontpellier
Score7544
Tourist attractions within 2 km858
Park area within 2 km84 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. London leads by 51 points.51
LondonMontpellier
Score8938
Notable places within 2 km64935
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 8 points.8
LondonMontpellier
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget—€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
LondonMontpellier
Score6374
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 30 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
BastiaBIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
TunisTUN
2 h 45 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MunichMUC
1 h 45 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
11 h 50 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

MeasureLondonMontpellier
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
Elevation4 m7 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonMontpellier
City population8,799,728310,240
People per km²5,5985,452
Museums within 10 km21514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre11665
Swim season, months above 21 °C–2 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). 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. 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.