VacationSelector

Montpellier or New Orleans?

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

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife 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.

MontpellierNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 7 points.7
MontpellierNew Orleans
Score3239
Swim season months27
Beaches 10 km83
Coast distance9 km21 km
Water distance9 km17 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 4 points.4
MontpellierNew Orleans
Score6561
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3425
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 19 points.19
MontpellierNew Orleans
Score2645
Museums within 10 km1442
Museums within 2 km of centre330
Share of museums within 2 km %2171
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 16 points.16
MontpellierNew Orleans
Score3854
Drinking venues within 4 km318704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8370
Nightclubs within 4 km2541
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 18 points.18
MontpellierNew Orleans
Score4325
Protected land share 50 km %154
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7089
Park area within 2 km55 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 2 points.2
MontpellierNew Orleans
Score4446
Tourist attractions within 2 km822
Park area within 2 km55 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. New Orleans leads by 2 points.2
MontpellierNew Orleans
Score3840
Notable places within 2 km3540
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 19 points.19
MontpellierNew Orleans
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 6 points.6
MontpellierNew Orleans
Score7468
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm94 mm to 194 mm
Dry months50
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
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
New Orleans
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierNew Orleans
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 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.

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierNew Orleans
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 m-2 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierNew Orleans
City population310,240383,997
People per km²5,452423
Museums within 10 km1416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6539
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months7 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). 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. 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.