VacationSelector

Montpellier or Vancouver?

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.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

MontpellierVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 28 points.28
MontpellierVancouver
Score3260
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km8109
Coast distance9 km1 km
Water distance9 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 9 points.9
MontpellierVancouver
Score6574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7371,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3435
Museums & heritage. Vancouver leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierVancouver
Score2634
Museums within 10 km1427
Museums within 2 km of centre315
Share of museums within 2 km %2156
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 19 points.19
MontpellierVancouver
Score3857
Drinking venues within 4 km318848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8371
Nightclubs within 4 km2544
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 34 points.34
MontpellierVancouver
Score4377
Protected land share 50 km %1519
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7060
Park area within 2 km55 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 9 points.9
MontpellierVancouver
Score4453
Tourist attractions within 2 km815
Park area within 2 km55 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km73
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 10 points.10
MontpellierVancouver
Score3848
Notable places within 2 km3563
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierVancouver
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 21 points.21
MontpellierVancouver
Score7453
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vancouver
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
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierVancouver
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
10 h 20 m
€629-762
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 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

MeasureMontpellierVancouver
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m2 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierVancouver
City population310,240662,248
People per km²5,4525,759
Museums within 10 km1426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6585
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. 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.