VacationSelector

Montpellier or York?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife 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.

MontpellierYork
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
MontpellierYork
Score320
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km82
Coast distance9 km50 km
Water distance9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
MontpellierYork
Score6554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3431
Museums & heritage. York leads by 20 points.20
MontpellierYork
Score2646
Museums within 10 km1418
Museums within 2 km of centre316
Share of museums within 2 km %2189
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. York leads by 5 points.5
MontpellierYork
Score3843
Drinking venues within 4 km318450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8378
Nightclubs within 4 km2514
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 10 points.10
MontpellierYork
Score4333
Protected land share 50 km %1517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1016
Land share of disc %7095
Park area within 2 km55 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 1 points.1
MontpellierYork
Score4443
Tourist attractions within 2 km813
Park area within 2 km55 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km73
Sights concentration. York leads by 1 points.1
MontpellierYork
Score3839
Notable places within 2 km3537
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montpellier leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierYork
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 18 points.18
MontpellierYork
Score7456
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months51
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontpellierYork
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 10 m
€136-184
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
NantesNTE
1 h 20 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AgadirAGA
2 h 45 m
no fares
PGF · 127 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureMontpellierYork
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation7 m25 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierYork
City population310,240208,400
People per km²5,452766
Museums within 10 km1424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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. 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.