Where a car takes you from Montpellier
These are the day trips from Montpellier on our own pages where a car earns its keep. Trains reach some of them; a car reaches all of them, on your own clock.
- Sète Sète is the Italian-accented fishing port half an hour from Montpellier, home of the tielle, the octopus and tomato tourte that defines the Hérault co
- Bouzigues and the Étang de Thau The Étang de Thau spreads oyster tables across 7,500 hectares of tideless lagoon, and the mas between Bouzigues and Marseillan sell them from the wate
- Pézenas Pézenas bakes 250,000 petits pâtés a year, spool-shaped lamb pastries sweetened with lemon and brown sugar, a recipe the town has held since the 1700s
- Marseillan and Noilly Prat Noilly Prat has aged vermouth in the open air at Marseillan since Louis Noilly built the chais in 1850, and the tour ends at a bar pouring all four
- Mèze Mèze is the working shellfish town of the Étang de Thau, a port where the oyster and mussel boats unload and the quayside kitchens cook the catch
- Palavas-les-Flots Palavas-les-Flots is the seaside village Montpellier treats as its beach, a canal lined with seafood terraces twenty minutes from the city centre
Booking a car in Montpellier
We compare through one partner rather than listing every broker. Desks sit at the airport and in town, and the headline rate below is theirs, not ours.
- From
- USD 57.32 a day
- Desks on site
- Alamo, Avis, Dollar, Enterprise, Europcar, Keddy, Sixt
- Pick up at
- Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport · Montpellier Train Station · Montpellier Sud de France Railway Station · Montpellier Airport
Rates are the partner's headline price at our last check (2026-10-02) and move with dates, car class and insurance. We earn a commission if you book, at no cost to you.