VacationSelector

Montpellier or Stuttgart?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Stuttgart
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

MontpellierStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
MontpellierStuttgart
Score320
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km83
Coast distance9 km476 km
Water distance9 km—
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 6 points.6
MontpellierStuttgart
Score6559
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3429
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 30 points.30
MontpellierStuttgart
Score2656
Museums within 10 km1465
Museums within 2 km of centre321
Share of museums within 2 km %2132
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Stuttgart leads by 11 points.11
MontpellierStuttgart
Score3849
Drinking venues within 4 km318524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8371
Nightclubs within 4 km2553
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 37 points.37
MontpellierStuttgart
Score4380
Protected land share 50 km %1551
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1031
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km55 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Stuttgart leads by 1 points.1
MontpellierStuttgart
Score4445
Tourist attractions within 2 km811
Park area within 2 km55 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km72
Sights concentration. Stuttgart leads by 6 points.6
MontpellierStuttgart
Score3844
Notable places within 2 km3550
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 2 points.2
MontpellierStuttgart
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
MontpellierStuttgart
Score7463
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months53
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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierStuttgart
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SXB · 117 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
55 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
BastiaBIA
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SXB · 117 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
10 h 45 m
€490-632
1 stop
FRA · 146 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMontpellierStuttgart
Official languageFrenchGerman
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 m245 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierStuttgart
City population310,240633,484
People per km²5,4523,054
Museums within 10 km1442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre6559
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.