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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bologna 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 Bologna for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

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

Choose Montreal for

  • families
  • nightlife
  • wellness

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. Bologna 30, Montreal 25: Bologna leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Montreal 78: Bologna leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna 77, Montreal 60: Bologna leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna 52, Montreal 66: Montreal leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Montreal 55: Bologna leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Montreal 72: Bologna leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna 55, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Montreal 45: Bologna leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna 40, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Montreal.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bologna
60match

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

Montreal
61match

Wins on families and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
15 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

Bologna 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.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

Before you go

MeasureBolognaMontreal
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m31 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaMontreal
City population387,9711,895,211
People per km²2,7543,806
Museums within 10 km6837
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30

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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.