VacationSelector

Cork or Montreal?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Montreal
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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.

CorkMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
CorkMontreal
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km17
Coast distance3 km276 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 24 points.24
CorkMontreal
Score5074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2241,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3549
Museums & heritage. Montreal leads by 14 points.14
CorkMontreal
Score2337
Museums within 10 km1039
Museums within 2 km of centre819
Share of museums within 2 km %8049
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 24 points.24
CorkMontreal
Score3862
Drinking venues within 4 km3611,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8149
Nightclubs within 4 km974
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 16 points.16
CorkMontreal
Score5236
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %74100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 23 points.23
CorkMontreal
Score2750
Tourist attractions within 2 km711
Park area within 2 km48 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 34 points.34
CorkMontreal
Score2256
Notable places within 2 km1498
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cork leads by 3 points.3
CorkMontreal
Score5754
Price level global80.284
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Montreal leads by 1 points.1
CorkMontreal
Score4950
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months00
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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkMontreal
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
6 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
8 h 25 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

MeasureCorkMontreal
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m31 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 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

MeasureCorkMontreal
City population222,3331,895,211
People per km²5,9613,806
Museums within 10 km537
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4997
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.