VacationSelector

Montpellier or Rome?

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 places to eat and year-round weather with your weighting.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

MontpellierRome
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 1 points.1
MontpellierRome
Score3233
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km83
Coast distance9 km24 km
Water distance9 km24 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 5 points.5
MontpellierRome
Score6560
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7372,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3410
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 58 points.58
MontpellierRome
Score2684
Museums within 10 km14161
Museums within 2 km of centre379
Share of museums within 2 km %2149
Unesco sites within 50 km27
Nightlife. Rome leads by 36 points.36
MontpellierRome
Score3874
Drinking venues within 4 km3182,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8345
Nightclubs within 4 km2585
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 27 points.27
MontpellierRome
Score4370
Protected land share 50 km %1519
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7078
Park area within 2 km55 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 42 points.42
MontpellierRome
Score4486
Tourist attractions within 2 km8126
Park area within 2 km55 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km74
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 61 points.61
MontpellierRome
Score3899
Notable places within 2 km351,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 6 points.6
MontpellierRome
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 3 points.3
MontpellierRome
Score7471
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm21 mm to 114 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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rome
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
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierRome
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
2 h 50 m
€91-168
FCO · 23 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 30 m
€145-191
FCO · 23 km
BastiaBIA
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
55 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
TunisTUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
11 h 15 m
€630-760
FCO · 23 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

MeasureMontpellierRome
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 m21 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierRome
City population310,2402,748,109
People per km²5,4522,135
Museums within 10 km14177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km27
Distinct cuisines in the centre6565
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months5 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.