VacationSelector

Montpellier or Pisa?

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, 2 points apart

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

MontpellierPisa
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
MontpellierPisa
Score3221
Swim season months24
Beaches 10 km81
Coast distance9 km10 km
Water distance9 km10 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 31 points.31
MontpellierPisa
Score6534
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km349
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 29 points.29
MontpellierPisa
Score2655
Museums within 10 km1427
Museums within 2 km of centre322
Share of museums within 2 km %2181
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Montpellier leads by 10 points.10
MontpellierPisa
Score3828
Drinking venues within 4 km318232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8388
Nightclubs within 4 km253
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 4 points.4
MontpellierPisa
Score4339
Protected land share 50 km %159
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7065
Park area within 2 km55 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 3 points.3
MontpellierPisa
Score4447
Tourist attractions within 2 km820
Park area within 2 km55 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km72
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 9 points.9
MontpellierPisa
Score3847
Notable places within 2 km3558
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 6 points.6
MontpellierPisa
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 4 points.4
MontpellierPisa
Score7470
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months52
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierPisa
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
FLR · 65 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
AjaccioAJA
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
45 m
no fares
BIA · 149 km
TunisTUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 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

MeasureMontpellierPisa
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m4 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierPisa
City population310,24088,737
People per km²5,452479
Museums within 10 km1427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre6529
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months4 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.