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The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above
The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie

Photos: Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Marmaris or Montpellier?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’s own page.

Choose Montpellier for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Montpellier’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Marmaris 80, Montpellier 64: Marmaris leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Marmaris 40, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Marmaris 18, Montpellier 60: Montpellier leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Marmaris 60, Montpellier 56: Marmaris leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marmaris and Montpellier are level on 72.
Day trips. Marmaris 65, Montpellier 85: Montpellier leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Marmaris and Montpellier are level on 62.
Getting around. Marmaris 55, Montpellier 74: Montpellier leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Marmaris 38, Montpellier 47: Montpellier leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Marmaris 62, Montpellier 50: Marmaris leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marmaris 12, Montpellier 63: Montpellier leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marmaris 50, Montpellier 42: Marmaris leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marmaris and Montpellier.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Montpellier in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
17 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMarmarisMontpellier
Official languageTurkishFrench
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m7 m
Main airportDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarmarisMontpellier
City population97,818310,240
People per km²1115,452
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months2 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.