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The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie
Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway

Photos: Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License.

Montpellier or Siem Reap?

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

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Siem Reap for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Siem Reap’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, Siem Reap 5: Montpellier leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Montpellier 64, Siem Reap 45: Montpellier leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Montpellier 60, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Montpellier 56, Siem Reap 42: Montpellier leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montpellier 72, Siem Reap 40: Montpellier leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Montpellier 85, Siem Reap 55: Montpellier leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Montpellier 62, Siem Reap 35: Montpellier leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Montpellier 74, Siem Reap 30: Montpellier leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Montpellier 47, Siem Reap 38: Montpellier leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Montpellier 50, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montpellier 63, Siem Reap 32: Montpellier leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montpellier 42, Siem Reap 60: Siem Reap leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montpellier and Siem Reap.

Your match

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

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Siem Reap
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Siem Reap has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierSiem Reap
Official languageFrenchKhmer
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation7 m18 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierSiem Reap
City population310,240147,866
People per km²5,452-
Museums within 10 km146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.