VacationSelector

Montpellier or Stockholm?

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 year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
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.

MontpellierStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 28 points.28
MontpellierStockholm
Score3260
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km873
Coast distance9 km0 km
Water distance9 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 11 points.11
MontpellierStockholm
Score6576
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7371,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3436
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 43 points.43
MontpellierStockholm
Score2669
Museums within 10 km1474
Museums within 2 km of centre347
Share of museums within 2 km %2164
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 26 points.26
MontpellierStockholm
Score3864
Drinking venues within 4 km3181,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8363
Nightclubs within 4 km25106
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 2 points.2
MontpellierStockholm
Score4341
Protected land share 50 km %157
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7077
Park area within 2 km55 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 13 points.13
MontpellierStockholm
Score4457
Tourist attractions within 2 km823
Park area within 2 km55 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km72
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 41 points.41
MontpellierStockholm
Score3879
Notable places within 2 km35357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 5 points.5
MontpellierStockholm
Score6257
Price level global73.780.3
Daily budget€160€169
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 21 points.21
MontpellierStockholm
Score7453
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm27 mm to 66 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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierStockholm
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€197-225
1 stop
MPL · 8 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BastiaBIA
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
TunisTUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasureMontpellierStockholm
Official languageFrenchSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m22 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierStockholm
City population310,240984,748
People per km²5,4525,260
Museums within 10 km14266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre6581
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.