VacationSelector

Montpellier or Vilnius?

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.

Vilnius
✓ Best match
51
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.

MontpellierVilnius
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
MontpellierVilnius
Score320
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km816
Coast distance9 km260 km
Water distance9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 5 points.5
MontpellierVilnius
Score6560
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737537
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3432
Museums & heritage. Vilnius leads by 45 points.45
MontpellierVilnius
Score2671
Museums within 10 km1474
Museums within 2 km of centre354
Share of museums within 2 km %2173
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Vilnius leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierVilnius
Score3846
Drinking venues within 4 km318464
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8384
Nightclubs within 4 km2539
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 2 points.2
MontpellierVilnius
Score4341
Protected land share 50 km %1510
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km55 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Vilnius leads by 7 points.7
MontpellierVilnius
Score4451
Tourist attractions within 2 km827
Park area within 2 km55 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. Vilnius leads by 27 points.27
MontpellierVilnius
Score3865
Notable places within 2 km35161
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vilnius leads by 14 points.14
MontpellierVilnius
Score6276
Price level global73.753.1
Daily budget€160€125
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 21 points.21
MontpellierVilnius
Score7453
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C-1.5 °C to 24 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm41 mm to 90 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
Vilnius
-1
0
4
13
19
22
24
23
18
10
4
0
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Vilnius
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Vilnius
48
42
41
41
60
66
90
78
58
58
45
49
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vilnius
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Vilnius
1
2
5
7
8
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierVilnius
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
KUN · 82 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
VNO · 6 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

MeasureMontpellierVilnius
Official languageFrenchLithuanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m98 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierVilnius
City population310,240581,475
People per km²5,4521,450
Museums within 10 km1430
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre6554
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.