VacationSelector

Interlaken or Montreal?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Montreal
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

InterlakenMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Interlaken and Montreal are level on 0.
InterlakenMontreal
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance713 km276 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 45 points.45
InterlakenMontreal
Score2974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1181,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1749
Museums & heritage. Montreal leads by 14 points.14
InterlakenMontreal
Score2337
Museums within 10 km539
Museums within 2 km of centre219
Share of museums within 2 km %4049
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 58 points.58
InterlakenMontreal
Score462
Drinking venues within 4 km421,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9049
Nightclubs within 4 km374
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 9 points.9
InterlakenMontreal
Score2736
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km5 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 36 points.36
InterlakenMontreal
Score1450
Tourist attractions within 2 km1111
Park area within 2 km5 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 34 points.34
InterlakenMontreal
Score2256
Notable places within 2 km1498
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montreal leads by 19 points.19
InterlakenMontreal
Score3554
Price level global110.584
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 7 points.7
InterlakenMontreal
Score5750
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months30
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
No sunshine record
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenMontreal
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 100 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
10 h 15 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

MeasureInterlakenMontreal
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshFrench, English
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation571 m31 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenMontreal
City population6,1231,895,211
People per km²1,4243,806
Museums within 10 km337
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2297

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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). 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. 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.