VacationSelector

Mexico City or Montreal?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration 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.

Mexico CityMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Montreal are level on 0.
Mexico CityMontreal
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km47
Coast distance247 km276 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CityMontreal
Score6674
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1791,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1549
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 42 points.42
Mexico CityMontreal
Score7937
Museums within 10 km13839
Museums within 2 km of centre6519
Share of museums within 2 km %4749
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
Mexico CityMontreal
Score7862
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1561,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4349
Nightclubs within 4 km19874
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 27 points.27
Mexico CityMontreal
Score6336
Protected land share 50 km %302
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City and Montreal are level on 50.
Mexico CityMontreal
Score5050
Tourist attractions within 2 km2311
Park area within 2 km32 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 2 points.2
Mexico CityMontreal
Score5456
Notable places within 2 km8898
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
Mexico CityMontreal
Score7654
Price level global54.284
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 40 points.40
Mexico CityMontreal
Score9050
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months60
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityMontreal
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
San Jose Del CaboSJD
2 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
5 h 20 m
€321-367
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
5 h 0 m
€190-216
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
13 h 10 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

MeasureMexico CityMontreal
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,240 m31 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityMontreal
City population9,209,9441,895,211
People per km²6,2023,806
Museums within 10 km10837
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre5097

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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). 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.