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Dresden 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, 1 point apart

Dresden
48
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

DresdenMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Montreal are level on 0.
DresdenMontreal
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km227
Coast distance267 km276 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 13 points.13
DresdenMontreal
Score6174
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4221,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4249
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenMontreal
Score5437
Museums within 10 km6639
Museums within 2 km of centre3419
Share of museums within 2 km %5249
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 20 points.20
DresdenMontreal
Score4262
Drinking venues within 4 km3591,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7449
Nightclubs within 4 km4374
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenMontreal
Score3936
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km80 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
DresdenMontreal
Score5950
Tourist attractions within 2 km3211
Park area within 2 km80 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 3 points.3
DresdenMontreal
Score5356
Notable places within 2 km8298
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenMontreal
Score6054
Price level global75.984
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 12 points.12
DresdenMontreal
Score6250
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months40
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
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. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenMontreal
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 112 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

MeasureDresdenMontreal
Official languageGermanFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)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
Elevation126 m31 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 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

MeasureDresdenMontreal
City population564,9041,895,211
People per km²1,7203,806
Museums within 10 km7037
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7797

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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). 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.