VacationSelector

Montpellier or Siena?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Montpellier
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

MontpellierSiena
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
MontpellierSiena
Score320
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km80
Coast distance9 km64 km
Water distance9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 33 points.33
MontpellierSiena
Score6532
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3411
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 45 points.45
MontpellierSiena
Score2671
Museums within 10 km1455
Museums within 2 km of centre351
Share of museums within 2 km %2193
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Montpellier leads by 21 points.21
MontpellierSiena
Score3817
Drinking venues within 4 km318142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8384
Nightclubs within 4 km251
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 24 points.24
MontpellierSiena
Score4319
Protected land share 50 km %153
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km55 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 13 points.13
MontpellierSiena
Score4431
Tourist attractions within 2 km813
Park area within 2 km55 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 12 points.12
MontpellierSiena
Score3850
Notable places within 2 km3569
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 6 points.6
MontpellierSiena
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 10 points.10
MontpellierSiena
Score7464
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm49 mm to 136 mm
Dry months50
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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
2 h 45 m
€267-328
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
TunisTUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLQ · 135 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

MeasureMontpellierSiena
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m322 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierSiena
City population310,24052,812
People per km²5,452446
Museums within 10 km1429
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre6525
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.