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Budapest or Montreal?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BudapestMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Montreal are level on 0.
BudapestMontreal
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km67
Coast distance10,000 km276 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 3 points.3
BudapestMontreal
Score7774
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6991,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3549
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 27 points.27
BudapestMontreal
Score6437
Museums within 10 km14439
Museums within 2 km of centre6419
Share of museums within 2 km %4449
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 10 points.10
BudapestMontreal
Score7262
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7651,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6649
Nightclubs within 4 km9774
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 4 points.4
BudapestMontreal
Score4036
Protected land share 50 km %82
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km111 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 21 points.21
BudapestMontreal
Score7150
Tourist attractions within 2 km7511
Park area within 2 km111 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 13 points.13
BudapestMontreal
Score6956
Notable places within 2 km20698
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 26 points.26
BudapestMontreal
Score8054
Price level global4884
Daily budget€104
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 14 points.14
BudapestMontreal
Score6450
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months50
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
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A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestMontreal
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestMontreal
Official languageHungarianFrench, English
CurrencyForint (HUF)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation117 m31 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestMontreal
City population1,685,2091,895,211
People per km²3,2093,806
Museums within 10 km8137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8697

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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). 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. 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.