VacationSelector

Montpellier or Tokyo?

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.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

MontpellierTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
MontpellierTokyo
Score3221
Swim season months24
Beaches 10 km81
Coast distance9 km5 km
Water distance9 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 25 points.25
MontpellierTokyo
Score6590
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7376,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3425
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 40 points.40
MontpellierTokyo
Score2666
Museums within 10 km14302
Museums within 2 km of centre352
Share of museums within 2 km %2117
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 57 points.57
MontpellierTokyo
Score3895
Drinking venues within 4 km3186,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2653,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8344
Nightclubs within 4 km2558
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 15 points.15
MontpellierTokyo
Score4358
Protected land share 50 km %15—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7085
Park area within 2 km55 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 27 points.27
MontpellierTokyo
Score4471
Tourist attractions within 2 km840
Park area within 2 km55 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km79
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 22 points.22
MontpellierTokyo
Score3860
Notable places within 2 km35121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierTokyo
Score6270
Price level global73.762.4
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 10 points.10
MontpellierTokyo
Score7464
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm57 mm to 237 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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierTokyo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 56 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 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

MeasureMontpellierTokyo
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierTokyo
City population310,24014,264,798
People per km²5,4526,501
Museums within 10 km14191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre65125
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months4 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. 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.