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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montreal or Nashville?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Montreal for

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Montreal’s own page.

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Montreal 25, Nashville 14: Montreal leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Nashville 62: Montreal leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Nashville 50: Montreal leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Nashville 70: Montreal leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal 66, Nashville 46: Montreal leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Nashville 52: Montreal leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Nashville 55: Montreal leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Nashville 30: Montreal leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Nashville 42: Montreal leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Nashville 30: Montreal leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Nashville 20: Montreal leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Nashville.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on getting around and wellness with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealNashville
Official languageFrench, English-
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation31 m182 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealNashville
City population1,895,211689,447
People per km²3,806506
Museums within 10 km3712
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.