VacationSelector

Montpellier or Oslo?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming 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.

MontpellierOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 28 points.28
MontpellierOslo
Score3260
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km8163
Coast distance9 km1 km
Water distance9 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 2 points.2
MontpellierOslo
Score6567
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3434
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 22 points.22
MontpellierOslo
Score2648
Museums within 10 km1470
Museums within 2 km of centre337
Share of museums within 2 km %2153
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 15 points.15
MontpellierOslo
Score3853
Drinking venues within 4 km318695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8381
Nightclubs within 4 km2541
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 18 points.18
MontpellierOslo
Score4361
Protected land share 50 km %1522
Landscape blanket share 50 km %101
Land share of disc %7094
Park area within 2 km55 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 4 points.4
MontpellierOslo
Score4448
Tourist attractions within 2 km813
Park area within 2 km55 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km72
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 31 points.31
MontpellierOslo
Score3869
Notable places within 2 km35207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierOslo
Score6254
Price level global73.785.1
Daily budget€160€203
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 26 points.26
MontpellierOslo
Score7448
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierOslo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€197-225
1 stop
MPL · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 30 m
€110-169
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
3 h 55 m
€221-254
2 stops
OSL · 37 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierOslo
Official languageFrenchNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation7 m23 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierOslo
City population310,240717,710
People per km²5,452–
Museums within 10 km1460
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6575
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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.