VacationSelector

Florence or Montreal?

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

Your match

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

FlorenceMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Montreal are level on 0.
FlorenceMontreal
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km07
Coast distance78 km276 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 15 points.15
FlorenceMontreal
Score5974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2991,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1549
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 45 points.45
FlorenceMontreal
Score8237
Museums within 10 km13239
Museums within 2 km of centre9319
Share of museums within 2 km %7049
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 6 points.6
FlorenceMontreal
Score5662
Drinking venues within 4 km8181,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7349
Nightclubs within 4 km3474
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 2 points.2
FlorenceMontreal
Score3836
Protected land share 50 km %92
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km86 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 2 points.2
FlorenceMontreal
Score5250
Tourist attractions within 2 km3011
Park area within 2 km86 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 19 points.19
FlorenceMontreal
Score7556
Notable places within 2 km29298
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceMontreal
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 18 points.18
FlorenceMontreal
Score6850
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months20
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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
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
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceMontreal
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
CasablancaCMN
3 h 5 m
€180-238
1 stop
BLQ · 85 km
7 h 20 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

MeasureFlorenceMontreal
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m31 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceMontreal
City population360,9301,895,211
People per km²3,5283,806
Museums within 10 km14037
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6297

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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.