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Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Huntington Beach 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 Huntington Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

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

Choose Montreal for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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. Huntington Beach 70, Montreal 25: Huntington Beach leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Huntington Beach 46, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Huntington Beach 14, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Huntington Beach 38, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huntington Beach 58, Montreal 66: Montreal leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Huntington Beach 63, Montreal 55: Huntington Beach leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Huntington Beach 82, Montreal 68: Huntington Beach leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Huntington Beach 20, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Huntington Beach 42, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Huntington Beach 28, Montreal 45: Montreal leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huntington Beach 33, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huntington Beach 36, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huntington Beach and Montreal.

Your match

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

Huntington Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 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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Huntington BeachMontreal

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuntington BeachMontreal
Official language-French, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation12 m31 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuntington BeachMontreal
City population198,7111,895,211
People per km²2,4063,806
Museums within 10 km337
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). 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.