VacationSelector

Montpellier or Yokohama?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

MontpellierYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 17 points.17
MontpellierYokohama
Score3249
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km82
Coast distance9 km1 km
Water distance9 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 13 points.13
MontpellierYokohama
Score6578
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7373,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3424
Museums & heritage. Yokohama leads by 27 points.27
MontpellierYokohama
Score2653
Museums within 10 km1457
Museums within 2 km of centre331
Share of museums within 2 km %2154
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 36 points.36
MontpellierYokohama
Score3874
Drinking venues within 4 km3182,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2651,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8364
Nightclubs within 4 km2533
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 15 points.15
MontpellierYokohama
Score4358
Protected land share 50 km %15—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %7067
Park area within 2 km55 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 14 points.14
MontpellierYokohama
Score4458
Tourist attractions within 2 km816
Park area within 2 km55 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km78
Sights concentration. Yokohama leads by 6 points.6
MontpellierYokohama
Score3844
Notable places within 2 km3549
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierYokohama
Score6270
Price level global73.762.4
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
MontpellierYokohama
Score7463
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm46 mm to 219 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
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierYokohama
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 77 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

MeasureMontpellierYokohama
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation7 m24 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierYokohama
City population310,2403,757,630
People per km²5,4528,585
Museums within 10 km1438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6566
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months5 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.