VacationSelector

Antwerp or Montreal?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on good for families 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.

AntwerpMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Antwerp and Montreal are level on 0.
AntwerpMontreal
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km17
Coast distance21 km276 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 1 points.1
AntwerpMontreal
Score7574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1641,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4249
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 32 points.32
AntwerpMontreal
Score6937
Museums within 10 km4139
Museums within 2 km of centre2719
Share of museums within 2 km %6649
Unesco sites within 50 km90
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 3 points.3
AntwerpMontreal
Score5962
Drinking venues within 4 km8661,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7649
Nightclubs within 4 km7374
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpMontreal
Score3436
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km53 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 4 points.4
AntwerpMontreal
Score4650
Tourist attractions within 2 km1411
Park area within 2 km53 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpMontreal
Score5456
Notable places within 2 km8898
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpMontreal
Score6054
Price level global76.284
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Antwerp leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpMontreal
Score5850
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months00
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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpMontreal
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 36 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
CuracaoCUR
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
CasablancaCMN
3 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 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

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 centre164 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre8097

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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. 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.