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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antwerp or Montreal?

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 Antwerp for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose Montreal for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Montreal’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. Antwerp 15, Montreal 25: Montreal leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Montreal 60: Antwerp leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Montreal 66: Montreal leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Montreal 55: Antwerp leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Montreal 72: Antwerp leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Montreal 60: Antwerp leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Montreal 45: Montreal leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Montreal.

Your match

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

Antwerp
55match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

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.

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
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

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpMontreal
Official languageFrench, German, DutchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m31 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpMontreal
City population529,2471,895,211
People per km²2,5423,806
Museums within 10 km3837
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.