VacationSelector

Montpellier or Porto?

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 nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

MontpellierPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 28 points.28
MontpellierPorto
Score3260
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km852
Coast distance9 km4 km
Water distance9 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 3 points.3
MontpellierPorto
Score6568
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7371,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3427
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 45 points.45
MontpellierPorto
Score2671
Museums within 10 km14101
Museums within 2 km of centre357
Share of museums within 2 km %2156
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Porto leads by 20 points.20
MontpellierPorto
Score3858
Drinking venues within 4 km318900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8363
Nightclubs within 4 km2538
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 10 points.10
MontpellierPorto
Score4333
Protected land share 50 km %157
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7061
Park area within 2 km55 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 21 points.21
MontpellierPorto
Score4465
Tourist attractions within 2 km8122
Park area within 2 km55 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 16 points.16
MontpellierPorto
Score3854
Notable places within 2 km3585
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 12 points.12
MontpellierPorto
Score6274
Price level global73.755.9
Daily budget€160€109
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 3 points.3
MontpellierPorto
Score7471
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months53
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Porto
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
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
NantesNTE
1 h 20 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€54-173
OPO · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 40 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasureMontpellierPorto
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m104 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierPorto
City population310,240231,800
People per km²5,4525,599
Museums within 10 km1442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre6570
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. 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.