VacationSelector

Montpellier or Vienna?

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.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

MontpellierVienna
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
MontpellierVienna
Score320
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km822
Coast distance9 km10,000 km
Water distance9 km—
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 12 points.12
MontpellierVienna
Score6577
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7371,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3437
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 55 points.55
MontpellierVienna
Score2681
Museums within 10 km14192
Museums within 2 km of centre3110
Share of museums within 2 km %2157
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 36 points.36
MontpellierVienna
Score3874
Drinking venues within 4 km3181,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2651,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8356
Nightclubs within 4 km25108
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
MontpellierVienna
Score4332
Protected land share 50 km %154
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km55 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 25 points.25
MontpellierVienna
Score4469
Tourist attractions within 2 km846
Park area within 2 km55 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km74
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 37 points.37
MontpellierVienna
Score3875
Notable places within 2 km35287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 3 points.3
MontpellierVienna
Score6259
Price level global73.776.9
Daily budget€160€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 13 points.13
MontpellierVienna
Score7461
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months51
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierVienna
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 45 m
€152-183
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 5 m
€230-294
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BastiaBIA
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
TunisTUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasureMontpellierVienna
Official languageFrenchGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m151 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierVienna
City population310,2402,028,289
People per km²5,4524,890
Museums within 10 km14152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre65113
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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.