VacationSelector

Faro 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, level with your weighting

Faro
47
match

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

Montreal
47
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

FaroMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroMontreal
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km137
Coast distance0 km276 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 30 points.30
FaroMontreal
Score4474
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2249
Museums & heritage. Montreal leads by 15 points.15
FaroMontreal
Score2237
Museums within 10 km939
Museums within 2 km of centre819
Share of museums within 2 km %8949
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 41 points.41
FaroMontreal
Score2162
Drinking venues within 4 km1431,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8649
Nightclubs within 4 km874
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 21 points.21
FaroMontreal
Score5736
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 14 points.14
FaroMontreal
Score3650
Tourist attractions within 2 km1011
Park area within 2 km34 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 34 points.34
FaroMontreal
Score2256
Notable places within 2 km1498
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 20 points.20
FaroMontreal
Score7454
Price level global55.984
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 33 points.33
FaroMontreal
Score8350
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months60
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroMontreal
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
6 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
PortoOPO
1 h 15 m
€37-132
FAO · 3 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
7 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

MeasureFaroMontreal
Official languagePortugueseFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m31 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroMontreal
City population64,5601,895,211
People per km²3193,806
Museums within 10 km237
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3497
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.