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The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Montpellier or Palm Beach?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Beach’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, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Montpellier 64, Palm Beach 47: Montpellier leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Montpellier 60, Palm Beach 45: Montpellier leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Montpellier 56, Palm Beach 32: Montpellier leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montpellier 72, Palm Beach 58: Montpellier leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Montpellier 85, Palm Beach 55: Montpellier leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Montpellier and Palm Beach are level on 62.
Getting around. Montpellier 74, Palm Beach 32: Montpellier leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Montpellier 47, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Montpellier 50, Palm Beach 12: Montpellier leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montpellier 63, Palm Beach 45: Montpellier leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montpellier 42, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montpellier and Palm Beach.

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 prices with your weighting.

Palm Beach
49match

Wins on shopping and beaches 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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierPalm Beach
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 m2 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierPalm Beach
City population310,2409,245
People per km²5,452322
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.