VacationSelector

Montpellier or Plovdiv?

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

Your match

Montpellier
✓ Best match
47
match

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

Plovdiv
44
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

MontpellierPlovdiv
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
MontpellierPlovdiv
Score320
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km81
Coast distance9 km130 km
Water distance9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 19 points.19
MontpellierPlovdiv
Score6546
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737369
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3419
Museums & heritage. Plovdiv leads by 12 points.12
MontpellierPlovdiv
Score2638
Museums within 10 km1426
Museums within 2 km of centre326
Share of museums within 2 km %21100
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Plovdiv leads by 4 points.4
MontpellierPlovdiv
Score3842
Drinking venues within 4 km318392
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265285
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8373
Nightclubs within 4 km2526
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 6 points.6
MontpellierPlovdiv
Score4337
Protected land share 50 km %155
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km55 hectares125 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 13 points.13
MontpellierPlovdiv
Score4431
Tourist attractions within 2 km85
Park area within 2 km55 hectares125 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. Plovdiv leads by 3 points.3
MontpellierPlovdiv
Score3841
Notable places within 2 km3541
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Plovdiv leads by 37 points.37
MontpellierPlovdiv
Score6299
Price level global73.721.4
Daily budget€160€77
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 9 points.9
MontpellierPlovdiv
Score7465
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C5.4 °C to 31.1 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm25 mm to 81 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
Plovdiv
5
9
14
19
24
28
31
31
26
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Plovdiv
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Plovdiv
65
63
61
53
67
62
40
25
48
66
59
81
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Plovdiv
10
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
Plovdiv
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierPlovdiv
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 125 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 125 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€123-230
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 125 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
SOF · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 125 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 125 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 125 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

MeasureMontpellierPlovdiv
Official languageFrenchBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m172 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierPlovdiv
City population310,240333,994
People per km²5,4523,274
Museums within 10 km1418
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6536
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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.