VacationSelector

Montreal or Munich?

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

Your match

Montreal
47
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

MontrealMunich
Beaches & swimming. Montreal and Munich are level on 0.
MontrealMunich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km76
Coast distance276 km579 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 1 points.1
MontrealMunich
Score7473
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0161,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4935
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 24 points.24
MontrealMunich
Score3761
Museums within 10 km3974
Museums within 2 km of centre1948
Share of museums within 2 km %4965
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Munich leads by 5 points.5
MontrealMunich
Score6267
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0121,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre493763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4957
Nightclubs within 4 km74103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 12 points.12
MontrealMunich
Score3648
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km189 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 29 points.29
MontrealMunich
Score5079
Tourist attractions within 2 km1180
Park area within 2 km189 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 12 points.12
MontrealMunich
Score5668
Notable places within 2 km98196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 6 points.6
MontrealMunich
Score5460
Price level global8475.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Munich leads by 6 points.6
MontrealMunich
Score5056
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm46 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
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealMunich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
MadridMAD
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMontrealMunich
Official languageFrench, EnglishGerman
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m519 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealMunich
City population1,895,2111,510,378
People per km²3,8064,861
Museums within 10 km3774
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9789

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under 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.