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The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montpellier or Orlando?

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

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Orlando for

  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Orlando’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, Orlando 42: Montpellier leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Montpellier 64, Orlando 48: Montpellier leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Montpellier 60, Orlando 22: Montpellier leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Montpellier 56, Orlando 40: Montpellier leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montpellier 72, Orlando 46: Montpellier leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Montpellier 85, Orlando 58: Montpellier leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Montpellier 62, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Montpellier 74, Orlando 8: Montpellier leads by 66 points.
Shopping & style. Montpellier 47, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Montpellier 50, Orlando 36: Montpellier leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montpellier 63, Orlando 40: Montpellier leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montpellier 42, Orlando 32: Montpellier leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montpellier and Orlando.

Your match

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

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Orlando
44match

Wins on families and shopping 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

Orlando in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
189 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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MontpellierOrlando

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierOrlando
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 m34 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierOrlando
City population310,240334,854
People per km²5,4521,086
Museums within 10 km1411
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.