VacationSelector

Montpellier or Seville?

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 and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Seville
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife 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.

MontpellierSeville
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
MontpellierSeville
Score320
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km82
Coast distance9 km65 km
Water distance9 km—
Places to eat. Seville leads by 1 points.1
MontpellierSeville
Score6566
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7371,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3422
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 30 points.30
MontpellierSeville
Score2656
Museums within 10 km1450
Museums within 2 km of centre340
Share of museums within 2 km %2180
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Seville leads by 24 points.24
MontpellierSeville
Score3862
Drinking venues within 4 km3181,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8362
Nightclubs within 4 km2557
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 6 points.6
MontpellierSeville
Score4337
Protected land share 50 km %158
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km55 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 21 points.21
MontpellierSeville
Score4465
Tourist attractions within 2 km847
Park area within 2 km55 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km72
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 17 points.17
MontpellierSeville
Score3855
Notable places within 2 km3592
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville leads by 9 points.9
MontpellierSeville
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 1 points.1
MontpellierSeville
Score7475
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months55
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
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierSeville
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 40 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 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

MeasureMontpellierSeville
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m18 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierSeville
City population310,240689,423
People per km²5,4524,896
Museums within 10 km1424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6552
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. 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.