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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose Montreal for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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. Bangkok 12, Montreal 25: Montreal leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Montreal 78: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Montreal 60: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Montreal 75: Bangkok leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Montreal 66: Montreal leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Montreal 55: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Montreal 60: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Montreal 45: Bangkok leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Montreal 57: Bangkok leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Montreal.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bangkok
63match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Montreal
61match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokMontreal
Official languageThaiFrench, English
CurrencyBaht (THB)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m31 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokMontreal
City population5,676,6481,895,211
People per km²3,6193,806
Museums within 10 km5937
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

Where else could you go?

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.