VacationSelector

Madrid or Montreal?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

MadridMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Madrid and Montreal are level on 0.
MadridMontreal
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km47
Coast distance305 km276 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 9 points.9
MadridMontreal
Score8374
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,5081,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2849
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 38 points.38
MadridMontreal
Score7537
Museums within 10 km9739
Museums within 2 km of centre5919
Share of museums within 2 km %6149
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 19 points.19
MadridMontreal
Score8162
Drinking venues within 4 km2,4141,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6249
Nightclubs within 4 km34174
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 27 points.27
MadridMontreal
Score6336
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km187 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 27 points.27
MadridMontreal
Score7750
Tourist attractions within 2 km6111
Park area within 2 km187 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 19 points.19
MadridMontreal
Score7556
Notable places within 2 km28898
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 17 points.17
MadridMontreal
Score7154
Price level global60.884
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 22 points.22
MadridMontreal
Score7250
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months70
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridMontreal
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 14 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 14 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BogotaBOG
10 h 5 m
€963-1395
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
CasablancaCMN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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 2026-08 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureMadridMontreal
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation663 m31 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridMontreal
City population3,506,7301,895,211
People per km²5,8013,806
Museums within 10 km8837
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre10697

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. 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.