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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • families

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

Choose Montreal for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • 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. Los Angeles 60, Montreal 25: Los Angeles leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Montreal 78: Los Angeles leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Montreal 60: Los Angeles leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Montreal 66: Los Angeles leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Montreal 55: Los Angeles leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Montreal 68: Los Angeles leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Montreal 60: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Montreal 45: Montreal leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Montreal 76: Los Angeles leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Montreal 57: Los Angeles leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Montreal.

Your match

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

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Montreal
61match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °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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Los AngelesMontreal

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesMontreal
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
Elevation106 m31 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 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

MeasureLos AngelesMontreal
City population3,898,7471,895,211
People per km²2,9943,806
Museums within 10 km3937
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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.