You can fly to the international airport Montpellier-Méditerrannée from some European cities directly or via Lyon or Paris. Alternatively, you might find even cheaper options to fly from your home city directly to Marseille, Carcassonne, Lyon or Toulouse and take the train from one of those airports to Montpellier. All four airports have excellent train connections to Montpellier and are a maximum of 2 hours away by train.

Flying to/from Montpellier Airport

Ryan Air: Frankfurt-Hahn or London – Stanstead

British Airways: London Gatwick

Easy Jet: London-Gatwick

Sterling Airline: Copenhagen, Oslo

Transvia: Amsterdam

Iberia: Madrid

Air France: From all over the world via Paris (up to 18 flights per day Paris – Montpellier) or Lyon (very interesting from many European cities like Prague, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Wien, Budapest, Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, Bologna, Venice etc. since the stopovers are usually very short)

A shuttle bus connects the airport with the centre of Montpellier (approx. 15 minute journey).

Flying to/from Marseille Airport

You can fly to Marseille Airport and take from there the shuttle bus (25 minutes journey, leaves each 20 minutes) to the railway station of Marseille. Than you take the train which brings you in approx. 90 minutes (direct train) to Montpellier. All train connections are under http://www.voyages-sncf.com/.

Examples of low cost airlines to Marseille (see also http://www.mp2.aeroport.fr/):

Ryan Air: Dublin, Glasgow, London, Eindhoven, Bruxelles, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Hamburg, Oslo, Goethenburg, Malmoe, Madrid, Rome, Porto, Stockholm, Manchester, Birmingham, Bournemouth

Easy Jet: Liverpool, Bristol, London

Aer Lingus: Dublin

Myair.com: Mailand, Venise

VirginExpress.com: Brussels

Flyme.com: Stockholm

For all connections to Marseille, please consult: http://www.marseille.aeroport.fr/.

Flying to/from Carcassonne Airport

You can fly to Carcassone Airport (small, regional airport) and take from there the shuttle bus to the city centre. (25 minutes journey, leaves usually after each flight arrival). Than you take the train which brings you in approx. 75 minutes (direct train) to Montpellier. All train connections are under http://www.voyages-sncf.com/.

Examples of low cost airlines to Carcassonne:

Ryan Air: Brussels, Dublin, East Midlands, Liverpool, London, Shannon

Flying to/from Toulouse Airport

You can fly to Toulouse Airport and take from there the shuttle bus (20 minutes journey, leaves each 20 minutes) to the railway station of Toulouse. Than you take the train which brings you in approx. 2 hours (direct train) to Montpellier. All train connections are under http://www.voyages-sncf.com/.

Examples of low cost airlines to Toulouse:

Easy Jet: Bristol, London, Madrid

Flybe.com: Birmingham

Germanwings: Hamburg

For all connections to Toulouse, please consult: http://www.toulouse.aeroport.fr/US/default.asp?lgue=2.

Flying to/from Lyon Airport

If you fly to Lyon Airport please note that some TGV high speed trains leave from the airport, some from the city centre. To get to the city centre you take the shuttle bus (Travel time 30 – 45 minutes, leaves every 20 minutes) Travel time for a direct connection to Montpellier is just under 2 hours. All train connections are under http://www.voyages-sncf.com/.

You can also continue flying to Montpellier – see under Montpellier airport.

Examples of low cost airlines to Lyon:

Easy Jet: London, Madrid, Rome

Flybmi.com - Find Cheap Flights: Aberdeen, Belfast, Brussels, Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester

Lyon has connections with 30 countries and more than 100 destinations. You can find all destinations here.

Montpellier is on the main TGV (High speed train) line Paris - Lyon - Perpignan - Barcelona and has connections to all major cities in France and Europe. The travel time between Paris and Montpellier is approx. 3 hours 15 minutes.

Information on train timetables and reservations under http://www.voyages-sncf.com/.

Prices for the trains depend on the time and day you travel. The earlier you book in advance the cheaper it will be. Prices for Paris – Montpellier one way start at 25 €.

 

You can reach Montpellier also by bus from nearly all European cities.

Eurolines: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna, Brussels, Zagreb, Madrid, Barcelona, London, Budapest, Rome, Bologna, Milan, Venice, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Lisbon, Bucharest, Belgrade, Bratislava, Ljubjana, Geneva, Zurick, Prague

Linebus: Madrid, Barcelona, Valence, Alicante, Seville, Malaga, San Sebastien, Bilbao, Lisbon, Porto

 

If you stay with a host family you will have a return transfer by the family free of charge (only on weekends and between 09:00 am and 10:30 pm) as long as arrival details are given to the family or to our accommodation officer at latest one week prior to arrival.

For all other accommodations you take a taxi, bus or tramway. In this case you get precise information on public transport with your accommodation information.