Bologna or Montreal?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.
Wins on places to eat 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.
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Montreal are level on 0.
| Bologna | Montreal | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 2 | 7 |
| Coast distance | 74 km | 276 km |
| Water distance | — | — |
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 16 points.16
| Bologna | Montreal | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 58 | 74 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 822 | 1,016 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 20 | 49 |
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 30 points.30
| Bologna | Montreal | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 67 | 37 |
| Museums within 10 km | 58 | 39 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 43 | 19 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 74 | 49 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 3 | 0 |
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 9 points.9
| Bologna | Montreal | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 53 | 62 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 720 | 1,012 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 531 | 493 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 74 | 49 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 30 | 74 |
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 3 points.3
| Bologna | Montreal | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 39 | 36 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 7 | 2 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 1 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 119 hectares | 189 hectares |
Good for families. Bologna leads by 5 points.5
| Bologna | Montreal | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 55 | 50 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 32 | 11 |
| Park area within 2 km | 119 hectares | 189 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 0 | 1 |
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 4 points.4
| Bologna | Montreal | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 60 | 56 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 120 | 98 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Bologna leads by 14 points.14
| Bologna | Montreal | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 68 | 54 |
| Price level global | 64.9 | 84 |
| Daily budget | €155 | — |
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 17 points.17
| Bologna | Montreal | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 67 | 50 |
| Monthly daytime high | 7 °C to 31.5 °C | -3.5 °C to 26.5 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 34 mm to 75 mm | 69 mm to 121 mm |
| Dry months | 5 | 0 |
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).
Getting there
| Flying from | Bologna | Montreal |
|---|---|---|
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 1 h 40 m €158-262 1 stop BLQ · 6 km | 7 h 10 m €308-372 YUL · 16 km |
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 2 h 0 m €114-267 BLQ · 6 km | 6 h 50 m €447-599 1 stop YUL · 16 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 8 h 30 m €637-650 VCE · 138 km | 1 h 20 m €231-372 1 stop YUL · 16 km |
| CataniaCTA | 1 h 40 m €41-45 BLQ · 6 km | 9 h 0 m no fares YUL · 16 km |
| BarcelonaBCN | 1 h 40 m €42-75 BLQ · 6 km | 7 h 35 m no fares YUL · 16 km |
| IstanbulIST, SAW | 2 h 25 m €154-191 1 stop BLQ · 6 km | 9 h 45 m no fares YUL · 16 km |
| MadridMAD | 2 h 10 m no fares BLQ · 6 km | 7 h 10 m no fares YUL · 16 km |
| TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ | 8 h 45 m no fares VCE · 138 km | 1 h 15 m €133-276 YUL · 16 km |
| CasablancaCMN | 3 h 5 m €180-238 1 stop BLQ · 6 km | 7 h 20 m no fares YUL · 16 km |
| CancunCUN | 11 h 10 m no fares VRN · 106 km | 4 h 10 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
| Measure | Bologna | Montreal |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Italian | French, English |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Canadian Dollar (CAD) |
| Sockets | CFL230 V, 50 Hz | AB120 V, 60 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 911 |
| Elevation | 54 m | 31 m |
| Main airport | Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinations | Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 13 days | 10 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Bologna | Montreal |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 387,971 | 1,895,211 |
| People per km² | 2,754 | 3,806 |
| Museums within 10 km | 66 | 37 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 3 | 0 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 62 | 97 |
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