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The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Romana 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 La Romana for

  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Montreal for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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. La Romana 84, Montreal 25: La Romana leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Montreal 66: Montreal leads by 4 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Montreal 55: Montreal leads by 3 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 12 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 32 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Montreal 45: La Romana leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 59 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Montreal.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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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La RomanaMontreal

Where the figures come from

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaMontreal
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation10 m31 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 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

MeasureLa RomanaMontreal
City population139,2381,895,211
People per km²5123,806
Museums within 10 km037
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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.

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.