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The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montpellier or Nashville?

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 Montpellier for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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. Montpellier 64, Nashville 14: Montpellier leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Montpellier 64, Nashville 62: Montpellier leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Montpellier 60, Nashville 50: Montpellier leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Montpellier 56, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montpellier 72, Nashville 46: Montpellier leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Montpellier 85, Nashville 52: Montpellier leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Montpellier 62, Nashville 55: Montpellier leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Montpellier 74, Nashville 30: Montpellier leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Montpellier 47, Nashville 42: Montpellier leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Montpellier 50, Nashville 30: Montpellier leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montpellier 63, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montpellier 42, Nashville 20: Montpellier leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montpellier and Nashville.

Your match

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

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierNashville
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m182 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierNashville
City population310,240689,447
People per km²5,452506
Museums within 10 km1412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.