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The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Montpellier or Venice?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Montpellier for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Montpellier’s own page.

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Montpellier 64, Venice 56: Montpellier leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Montpellier 64, Venice 60: Montpellier leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Montpellier 60, Venice 94: Venice leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Montpellier 56, Venice 27: Montpellier leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montpellier 72, Venice 45: Montpellier leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Montpellier 85, Venice 86: Venice leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Montpellier 62, Venice 45: Montpellier leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Montpellier 74, Venice 68: Montpellier leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Montpellier 47, Venice 57: Venice leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Montpellier 50, Venice 20: Montpellier leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montpellier 63, Venice 62: Montpellier leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montpellier 42, Venice 40: Montpellier leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montpellier and Venice.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
55match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Montpellier in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
17 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Venice has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierVenice
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m2 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierVenice
City population310,240250,369
People per km²5,452602
Museums within 10 km1452
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.