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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Havana 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 Havana for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Montreal for

  • food and drink
  • wellness
  • families

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. Havana 64, Montreal 25: Havana leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Montreal 60: Havana leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Montreal 66: Montreal leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Montreal 55: Montreal leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Montreal 45: Havana leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Montreal.

Your match

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

Havana
47match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on food and drink and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HavanaMontreal

Where the figures come from

Havana 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. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaMontreal
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105911
Elevation59 m31 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaMontreal
City population2,492,6181,895,211
People per km²3,4233,806
Museums within 10 km1237
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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). 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.