VacationSelector

Montpellier or Reykjavik?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

MontpellierReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 28 points.28
MontpellierReykjavik
Score3260
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km833
Coast distance9 km0 km
Water distance9 km0 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 16 points.16
MontpellierReykjavik
Score6549
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3429
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 24 points.24
MontpellierReykjavik
Score2650
Museums within 10 km1434
Museums within 2 km of centre323
Share of museums within 2 km %2168
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
MontpellierReykjavik
Score3827
Drinking venues within 4 km318192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8386
Nightclubs within 4 km2510
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 16 points.16
MontpellierReykjavik
Score4359
Protected land share 50 km %1516
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7056
Park area within 2 km55 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 2 points.2
MontpellierReykjavik
Score4442
Tourist attractions within 2 km821
Park area within 2 km55 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 10 points.10
MontpellierReykjavik
Score3848
Notable places within 2 km3561
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 21 points.21
MontpellierReykjavik
Score6241
Price level global73.7102.8
Daily budget€160€243
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 37 points.37
MontpellierReykjavik
Score7437
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months50
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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierReykjavik
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€197-225
1 stop
MPL · 8 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 50 m
€275-453
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
KEF · 37 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

MeasureMontpellierReykjavik
Official languageFrenchIcelandic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m8 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierReykjavik
City population310,240138,772
People per km²5,452569
Museums within 10 km1423
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6542
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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.