VacationSelector

Montpellier or Toronto?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

MontpellierToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
MontpellierToronto
Score3243
Swim season months21
Beaches 10 km858
Coast distance9 km533 km
Water distance9 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 17 points.17
MontpellierToronto
Score6582
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7372,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3439
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 17 points.17
MontpellierToronto
Score2643
Museums within 10 km1435
Museums within 2 km of centre325
Share of museums within 2 km %2171
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 31 points.31
MontpellierToronto
Score3869
Drinking venues within 4 km3181,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8364
Nightclubs within 4 km25103
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 17 points.17
MontpellierToronto
Score4326
Protected land share 50 km %152
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km55 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 13 points.13
MontpellierToronto
Score4457
Tourist attractions within 2 km823
Park area within 2 km55 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km74
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 23 points.23
MontpellierToronto
Score3861
Notable places within 2 km35128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierToronto
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 19 points.19
MontpellierToronto
Score7455
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm51 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierToronto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureMontpellierToronto
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m76 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierToronto
City population310,2402,794,356
People per km²5,4524,434
Museums within 10 km1432
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre65102
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months1 month

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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.