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The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie
Skiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort, Winter Park, Colorado
Winter Park, ColoradoSkiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort

Photos: Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montpellier or Winter Park, Colorado?

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

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Winter Park, Colorado’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, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Montpellier leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Montpellier 64, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Montpellier leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Montpellier 60, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Montpellier leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Montpellier 56, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Montpellier leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montpellier 72, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Montpellier 85, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Montpellier leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Montpellier and Winter Park, Colorado are level on 62.
Getting around. Montpellier 74, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Montpellier leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Montpellier 47, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Montpellier leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Montpellier 50, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Montpellier leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montpellier 63, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Montpellier leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montpellier 42, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montpellier and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

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

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Winter Park, Colorado in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Winter Park, Colorado's temperatures are measured 90 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Winter Park, Colorado's station stands 269 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Winter Park, Colorado 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierWinter Park, Colorado
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m2,759 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierWinter Park, Colorado
City population310,2401,033
People per km²5,45224
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.