VacationSelector

Monaco or Montreal?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Monaco
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

MonacoMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
MonacoMontreal
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km507
Coast distance0 km276 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 35 points.35
MonacoMontreal
Score3974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1649
Museums & heritage. Monaco leads by 1 points.1
MonacoMontreal
Score3837
Museums within 10 km2339
Museums within 2 km of centre819
Share of museums within 2 km %3549
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 54 points.54
MonacoMontreal
Score862
Drinking venues within 4 km691,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9149
Nightclubs within 4 km774
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 17 points.17
MonacoMontreal
Score5336
Protected land share 50 km %242
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km15 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 15 points.15
MonacoMontreal
Score3550
Tourist attractions within 2 km1411
Park area within 2 km15 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 8 points.8
MonacoMontreal
Score6456
Notable places within 2 km15498
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 24 points.24
MonacoMontreal
Score7450
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months30
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoMontreal
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
NantesNTE
1 h 35 m
€129-163
NCE · 18 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
TunisTUN
1 h 35 m
€148-281
NCE · 18 km
8 h 40 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

MeasureMonacoMontreal
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation68 m31 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 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

MeasureMonacoMontreal
City population38,8571,895,211
People per km²18,5033,806
Museums within 10 km1437
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2997
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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). 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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.