VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Montreal?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

Los AngelesMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
Los AngelesMontreal
Score290
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km07
Swim season months00
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance276 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 8 points.8
Los AngelesMontreal
Score6674
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3371,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2249
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 12 points.12
Los AngelesMontreal
Score4937
Museums within 10 km6939
Museums within 2 km of centre2319
Share of museums within 2 km %3349
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 8 points.8
Los AngelesMontreal
Score5462
Drinking venues within 4 km6601,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6549
Nightclubs within 4 km6474
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
Los AngelesMontreal
Score6236
Protected land share 50 km %262
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 17 points.17
Los AngelesMontreal
Score3350
Tourist attractions within 2 km1111
Park area within 2 km20 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 2 points.2
Los AngelesMontreal
Score5456
Notable places within 2 km8898
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montreal leads by 11 points.11
Los AngelesMontreal
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 37 points.37
Los AngelesMontreal
Score8750
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months80
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesMontreal
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
2 h 45 m
€166-318
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
5 h 0 m
€190-216
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
Las VegasLAS
1 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 35 m
€261-303
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
CasablancaCMN
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
€570-646
LAX · 19 km
13 h 5 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureLos AngelesMontreal
Official languageFrench, 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
Elevation106 m31 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesMontreal
City population3,898,7471,895,211
People per km²2,9943,806
Museums within 10 km3837
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4697
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. 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.