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The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped; New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Montpellier or New York?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose New York for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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, New York 50: Montpellier leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Montpellier 64, New York 92: New York leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Montpellier 60, New York 89: New York leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Montpellier 56, New York 97: New York leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montpellier 72, New York 55: Montpellier leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Montpellier 85, New York 68: Montpellier leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Montpellier 62, New York 70: New York leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Montpellier 74, New York 82: New York leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Montpellier 47, New York 97: New York leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Montpellier 50, New York 12: Montpellier leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montpellier 63, New York 99: New York leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montpellier and New York are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montpellier and New York.

Your match

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

Montpellier
62match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on shopping 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

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
22 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontpellierNew York

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierNew York
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m25 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierNew York
City population310,2408,804,190
People per km²5,4527,256
Museums within 10 km14157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months3 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.