VacationSelector

Athens or Montreal?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

AthensMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 48 points.48
AthensMontreal
Score480
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km147
Coast distance6 km276 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 5 points.5
AthensMontreal
Score6974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4311,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2549
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 36 points.36
AthensMontreal
Score7337
Museums within 10 km12239
Museums within 2 km of centre7819
Share of museums within 2 km %6449
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Athens leads by 19 points.19
AthensMontreal
Score8162
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7181,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5049
Nightclubs within 4 km13674
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 9 points.9
AthensMontreal
Score4536
Protected land share 50 km %52
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %50100
Park area within 2 km128 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 21 points.21
AthensMontreal
Score7150
Tourist attractions within 2 km6811
Park area within 2 km128 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 19 points.19
AthensMontreal
Score7556
Notable places within 2 km29198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 20 points.20
AthensMontreal
Score7454
Price level global55.884
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 24 points.24
AthensMontreal
Score7450
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months70
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensMontreal
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 15 m
€634
ATH · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 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

MeasureAthensMontreal
Official languageGreekFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation74 m31 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensMontreal
City population643,4521,895,211
People per km²16,4993,806
Museums within 10 km8837
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8297
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.