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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Deer Valley 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 Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Montreal for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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. Deer Valley 10, Montreal 25: Montreal leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Montreal 66: Deer Valley leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Montreal 55: Montreal leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley 60, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Montreal 45: Montreal leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Montreal.

Your match

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

Deer Valley
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyMontreal
Official language-French, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,474 m31 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyMontreal
City population-1,895,211
People per km²-3,806
Museums within 10 km037
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.