VacationSelector

Montpellier or Sao Paulo?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money 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.

MontpellierSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
MontpellierSao Paulo
Score320
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km80
Coast distance9 km51 km
Water distance9 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierSao Paulo
Score6573
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7371,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3427
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 17 points.17
MontpellierSao Paulo
Score2643
Museums within 10 km1482
Museums within 2 km of centre326
Share of museums within 2 km %2132
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 34 points.34
MontpellierSao Paulo
Score3872
Drinking venues within 4 km3181,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8351
Nightclubs within 4 km25118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierSao Paulo
Score4351
Protected land share 50 km %1526
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1015
Land share of disc %7095
Park area within 2 km55 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 11 points.11
MontpellierSao Paulo
Score4455
Tourist attractions within 2 km838
Park area within 2 km55 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.12
MontpellierSao Paulo
Score3850
Notable places within 2 km3568
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
MontpellierSao Paulo
Score6281
Price level global73.746.1
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 9 points.9
MontpellierSao Paulo
Score7483
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months51
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
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierSao Paulo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
CasablancaCMN
2 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
GRU · 21 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

MeasureMontpellierSao Paulo
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation7 m760 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierSao Paulo
City population310,24011,451,999
People per km²5,4527,519
Museums within 10 km1490
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6559
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. 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.