VacationSelector

Montpellier or Thessaloniki?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

MontpellierThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 23 points.23
MontpellierThessaloniki
Score3255
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km84
Coast distance9 km0 km
Water distance9 km0 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 15 points.15
MontpellierThessaloniki
Score6550
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3415
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 23 points.23
MontpellierThessaloniki
Score2649
Museums within 10 km1434
Museums within 2 km of centre322
Share of museums within 2 km %2165
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 29 points.29
MontpellierThessaloniki
Score3867
Drinking venues within 4 km3181,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8357
Nightclubs within 4 km2561
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 22 points.22
MontpellierThessaloniki
Score4365
Protected land share 50 km %1525
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7083
Park area within 2 km55 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 3 points.3
MontpellierThessaloniki
Score4441
Tourist attractions within 2 km816
Park area within 2 km55 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 18 points.18
MontpellierThessaloniki
Score3856
Notable places within 2 km3598
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 12 points.12
MontpellierThessaloniki
Score6274
Price level global73.755.8
Daily budget€160€125
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 2 points.2
MontpellierThessaloniki
Score7472
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months59
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierThessaloniki
AthensATH
2 h 40 m
€160-212
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BZR · 53 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
HeraklionHER
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
LarnacaLCA
3 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 0 m
€105-145
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureMontpellierThessaloniki
Official languageFrenchGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierThessaloniki
City population310,240309,617
People per km²5,45216,042
Museums within 10 km1431
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6545
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months5 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.