VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

Los AngelesMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 3 points.3
Los AngelesMontpellier
Score2932
Beaches 25 km11—
Beaches 10 km08
Swim season months02
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C—
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing—
Declared2026-08-25—
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json—
Coast distance—9 km
Water distance—9 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 1 points.1
Los AngelesMontpellier
Score6665
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2234
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 23 points.23
Los AngelesMontpellier
Score4926
Museums within 10 km6914
Museums within 2 km of centre233
Share of museums within 2 km %3321
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 16 points.16
Los AngelesMontpellier
Score5438
Drinking venues within 4 km660318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6583
Nightclubs within 4 km6425
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 19 points.19
Los AngelesMontpellier
Score6243
Protected land share 50 km %2615
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %8070
Park area within 2 km20 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
Los AngelesMontpellier
Score3344
Tourist attractions within 2 km118
Park area within 2 km20 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 16 points.16
Los AngelesMontpellier
Score5438
Notable places within 2 km8835
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 19 points.19
Los AngelesMontpellier
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget—€160
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 13 points.13
Los AngelesMontpellier
Score8774
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months85
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesMontpellier
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MunichMUC
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
LisbonLIS
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
CasablancaCMN
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
€570-646
LAX · 19 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

MeasureLos AngelesMontpellier
Official language–French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m7 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesMontpellier
City population3,898,747310,240
People per km²2,9945,452
Museums within 10 km3814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4665
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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.