VacationSelector

Montpellier or Warsaw?

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.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

MontpellierWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
MontpellierWarsaw
Score320
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km826
Coast distance9 km238 km
Water distance9 km—
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 7 points.7
MontpellierWarsaw
Score6572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7371,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3434
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 37 points.37
MontpellierWarsaw
Score2663
Museums within 10 km14107
Museums within 2 km of centre360
Share of museums within 2 km %2156
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 24 points.24
MontpellierWarsaw
Score3862
Drinking venues within 4 km3181,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8364
Nightclubs within 4 km25104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 12 points.12
MontpellierWarsaw
Score4355
Protected land share 50 km %1527
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1019
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km55 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 26 points.26
MontpellierWarsaw
Score4470
Tourist attractions within 2 km842
Park area within 2 km55 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km75
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 38 points.38
MontpellierWarsaw
Score3876
Notable places within 2 km35299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 17 points.17
MontpellierWarsaw
Score6279
Price level global73.749
Daily budget€160€133
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 15 points.15
MontpellierWarsaw
Score7459
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months56
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierWarsaw
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureMontpellierWarsaw
Official languageFrenchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m118 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierWarsaw
City population310,2401,862,402
People per km²5,4523,601
Museums within 10 km14117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6576
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. 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.