VacationSelector

Cannes or Montreal?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cannes
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

CannesMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesMontreal
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km687
Coast distance1 km276 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 24 points.24
CannesMontreal
Score5074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4731,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1949
Museums & heritage. Montreal leads by 1 points.1
CannesMontreal
Score3637
Museums within 10 km3139
Museums within 2 km of centre519
Share of museums within 2 km %1649
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 34 points.34
CannesMontreal
Score2862
Drinking venues within 4 km1881,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8749
Nightclubs within 4 km1974
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 3 points.3
CannesMontreal
Score3336
Protected land share 50 km %172
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 25 points.25
CannesMontreal
Score2550
Tourist attractions within 2 km711
Park area within 2 km13 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Cannes and Montreal are level on 56.
CannesMontreal
Score5656
Notable places within 2 km9598
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 8 points.8
CannesMontreal
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 24 points.24
CannesMontreal
Score7450
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months30
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
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesMontreal
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
QuebecYQB
7 h 30 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 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

MeasureCannesMontreal
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m31 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMontreal
City population74,3501,895,211
People per km²3,7933,806
Museums within 10 km1637
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3897
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.