VacationSelector

Miami or Montreal?

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

Your match

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

MiamiMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
MiamiMontreal
Score950
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km207
Coast distance1 km276 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 9 points.9
MiamiMontreal
Score6574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8981,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2949
Museums & heritage. Montreal leads by 14 points.14
MiamiMontreal
Score2337
Museums within 10 km2839
Museums within 2 km of centre619
Share of museums within 2 km %2149
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 12 points.12
MiamiMontreal
Score5062
Drinking venues within 4 km5381,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5349
Nightclubs within 4 km6374
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 36 points.36
MiamiMontreal
Score7236
Protected land share 50 km %162
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %48100
Park area within 2 km50 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 6 points.6
MiamiMontreal
Score4450
Tourist attractions within 2 km1411
Park area within 2 km50 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 14 points.14
MiamiMontreal
Score4256
Notable places within 2 km4598
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montreal leads by 11 points.11
MiamiMontreal
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 24 points.24
MiamiMontreal
Score7450
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months00
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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Miami
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. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiMontreal
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
Punta CanaPUJ
2 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
QuebecYQB
3 h 30 m
no fares
FLL · 33 km
55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
CancunCUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€127-180
MIA · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
CasablancaCMN
8 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
7 h 20 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

MeasureMiamiMontreal
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m31 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiMontreal
City population442,2411,895,211
People per km²3,0463,806
Museums within 10 km1737
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3997
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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.