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The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Montpellier or San Juan?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose San Juan for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’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, San Juan 84: San Juan leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Montpellier 64, San Juan 66: San Juan leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Montpellier 60, San Juan 64: San Juan leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Montpellier 56, San Juan 70: San Juan leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montpellier 72, San Juan 74: San Juan leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Montpellier 85, San Juan 52: Montpellier leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Montpellier 62, San Juan 58: Montpellier leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Montpellier 74, San Juan 38: Montpellier leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Montpellier 47, San Juan 50: San Juan leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Montpellier 50, San Juan 38: Montpellier leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montpellier 63, San Juan 55: Montpellier leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montpellier 42, San Juan 40: Montpellier leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montpellier and San Juan.

Your match

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

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

San Juan
57match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontpellierSan Juan

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierSan Juan
Official languageFrenchSpanish, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m3 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierSan Juan
City population310,240342,259
People per km²5,4522,847
Museums within 10 km1418
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.