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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Montreal for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Liverpool 22, Montreal 25: Montreal leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool 64, Montreal 60: Liverpool leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, Montreal 66: Montreal leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, Montreal 55: Liverpool leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Liverpool 68, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Liverpool 52, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Liverpool 50, Montreal 45: Liverpool leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 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: Liverpool and Montreal.

Your match

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

Liverpool
52match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on wellness and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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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Where the figures come from

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLiverpoolMontreal
Official languageEnglishFrench, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation70 m31 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolMontreal
City population513,4411,895,211
People per km²4,5923,806
Museums within 10 km3137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.