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Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Laguna 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 Laguna Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Montreal for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • food and drink

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. Laguna Beach 72, Montreal 25: Laguna Beach leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Laguna Beach 40, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Laguna Beach 27, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Laguna Beach 18, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 57 points.
Nature & outdoors. Laguna Beach 73, Montreal 66: Laguna Beach leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Laguna Beach 72, Montreal 55: Laguna Beach leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Laguna Beach and Montreal are level on 68.
Getting around. Laguna Beach 33, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Laguna Beach 46, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Laguna Beach 12, Montreal 45: Montreal leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Laguna Beach 40, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Laguna Beach 47, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Laguna Beach and Montreal.

Your match

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

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on nightlife 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.

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °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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Laguna BeachMontreal

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLaguna 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
Elevation6 m31 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 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

MeasureLaguna BeachMontreal
City population23,0321,895,211
People per km²9073,806
Museums within 10 km237
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.