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The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montpellier or Sedona?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

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

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Montpellier leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Montpellier 64, Sedona 33: Montpellier leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Montpellier 60, Sedona 20: Montpellier leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Montpellier 56, Sedona 8: Montpellier leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montpellier 72, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Montpellier 85, Sedona 55: Montpellier leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Montpellier 62, Sedona 42: Montpellier leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Montpellier 74, Sedona 22: Montpellier leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Montpellier 47, Sedona 34: Montpellier leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Montpellier 50, Sedona 18: Montpellier leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montpellier 63, Sedona 13: Montpellier leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montpellier 42, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montpellier and Sedona.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierSedona
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m1,319 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierSedona
City population310,2409,684
People per km²5,452195
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.