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Wat Xieng Thong temple, Luang Prabang
Luang PrabangWat Xieng Thong temple
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Luang Prabang by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Luang Prabang 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 Luang Prabang for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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

Choose Montreal for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • 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. Luang Prabang 14, Montreal 25: Montreal leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Luang Prabang 42, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Luang Prabang 65, Montreal 60: Luang Prabang leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Luang Prabang 8, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 67 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luang Prabang 68, Montreal 66: Luang Prabang leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Luang Prabang 35, Montreal 55: Montreal leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Luang Prabang 38, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Luang Prabang 50, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Luang Prabang 38, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Luang Prabang 80, Montreal 45: Luang Prabang leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luang Prabang 18, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luang Prabang 60, Montreal 57: Luang Prabang leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luang Prabang and Montreal.

Your match

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

Luang Prabang
43match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Luang Prabang in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
250 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Luang Prabang: 1991-2020 normals, Luang-Prabang (0.8 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuang PrabangMontreal
Official languageLaoFrench, English
CurrencyLao Kip (LAK)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsABCEF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 195, fire 190911
Elevation305 m31 m
Main airportLuang Phabang International Airport (LPQ)4 km from centre7 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuang PrabangMontreal
City population53,7921,895,211
People per km²-3,806
Museums within 10 km037
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.