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The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montpellier or Puerto Escondido?

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

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Montpellier 64, Puerto Escondido 48: Montpellier leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Montpellier 60, Puerto Escondido 8: Montpellier leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Montpellier 56, Puerto Escondido 45: Montpellier leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montpellier 72, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Montpellier 85, Puerto Escondido 35: Montpellier leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Montpellier 62, Puerto Escondido 42: Montpellier leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Montpellier 74, Puerto Escondido 40: Montpellier leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Montpellier 47, Puerto Escondido 22: Montpellier leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Montpellier 50, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montpellier 63, Puerto Escondido 12: Montpellier leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montpellier 42, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montpellier and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierPuerto Escondido
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m60 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierPuerto Escondido
City population310,24029,903
People per km²5,452-
Museums within 10 km140
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.