VacationSelector

Montpellier or The Hague?

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.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming 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.

MontpellierThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 28 points.28
MontpellierThe Hague
Score3260
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km834
Coast distance9 km3 km
Water distance9 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 5 points.5
MontpellierThe Hague
Score6570
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3443
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 36 points.36
MontpellierThe Hague
Score2662
Museums within 10 km1446
Museums within 2 km of centre326
Share of museums within 2 km %2157
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierThe Hague
Score3846
Drinking venues within 4 km318511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8356
Nightclubs within 4 km2519
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 11 points.11
MontpellierThe Hague
Score4354
Protected land share 50 km %158
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7056
Park area within 2 km55 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 12 points.12
MontpellierThe Hague
Score4456
Tourist attractions within 2 km810
Park area within 2 km55 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km77
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 16 points.16
MontpellierThe Hague
Score3854
Notable places within 2 km3586
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 4 points.4
MontpellierThe Hague
Score6258
Price level global73.779.2
Daily budget€160€181
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 20 points.20
MontpellierThe Hague
Score7454
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm42 mm to 85 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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierThe Hague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€197-225
1 stop
MPL · 8 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 5 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
TunisTUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 132 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 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

MeasureMontpellierThe Hague
Official languageFrenchDutch
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 or 911
Elevation7 m1 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierThe Hague
City population310,240548,320
People per km²5,4525,589
Museums within 10 km1454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre6577
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. 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.