VacationSelector

Montpellier or West Palm Beach?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Montpellier
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

MontpellierWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 56 points.56
MontpellierWest Palm Beach
Score3288
Swim season months212
Beaches 10 km810
Coast distance9 km0 km
Water distance9 km0 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 28 points.28
MontpellierWest Palm Beach
Score6537
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3414
Museums & heritage. Montpellier leads by 9 points.9
MontpellierWest Palm Beach
Score2617
Museums within 10 km145
Museums within 2 km of centre33
Share of museums within 2 km %2160
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Montpellier leads by 18 points.18
MontpellierWest Palm Beach
Score3820
Drinking venues within 4 km318132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre26590
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8368
Nightclubs within 4 km2510
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 26 points.26
MontpellierWest Palm Beach
Score4369
Protected land share 50 km %1515
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7045
Park area within 2 km55 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 23 points.23
MontpellierWest Palm Beach
Score4421
Tourist attractions within 2 km83
Park area within 2 km55 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Montpellier leads by 26 points.26
MontpellierWest Palm Beach
Score3812
Notable places within 2 km358
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 19 points.19
MontpellierWest Palm Beach
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 1 points.1
MontpellierWest Palm Beach
Score7475
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierWest Palm Beach
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
CasablancaCMN
2 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 25 m
€197-225
1 stop
MPL · 8 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureMontpellierWest Palm Beach
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierWest Palm Beach
City population310,240117,415
People per km²5,452786
Museums within 10 km144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6518
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 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.