VacationSelector

Montpellier or Paphos?

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, 1 point apart

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

MontpellierPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 47 points.47
MontpellierPaphos
Score3279
Swim season months26
Beaches 10 km827
Coast distance9 km1 km
Water distance9 km1 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 21 points.21
MontpellierPaphos
Score6544
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3422
Museums & heritage. Montpellier leads by 4 points.4
MontpellierPaphos
Score2622
Museums within 10 km148
Museums within 2 km of centre33
Share of museums within 2 km %2138
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Montpellier leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierPaphos
Score3830
Drinking venues within 4 km318224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8372
Nightclubs within 4 km2511
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 20 points.20
MontpellierPaphos
Score4323
Protected land share 50 km %152
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7033
Park area within 2 km55 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 2 points.2
MontpellierPaphos
Score4442
Tourist attractions within 2 km830
Park area within 2 km55 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. Montpellier leads by 19 points.19
MontpellierPaphos
Score3819
Notable places within 2 km3512
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierPaphos
Score6270
Price level global73.761.4
Daily budget€160€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 12 points.12
MontpellierPaphos
Score7486
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months58
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Paphos
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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
BristolBRS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 0 m
no fares
PGF · 127 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureMontpellierPaphos
Official languageFrenchTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m72 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierPaphos
City population310,24035,961
People per km²5,4521,987
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre6536
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months6 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.