VacationSelector

Montreal or New York?

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 value for money with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

MontrealNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
MontrealNew York
Score064
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km717
Coast distance276 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 21 points.21
MontrealNew York
Score7495
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0166,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4938
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 23 points.23
MontrealNew York
Score3760
Museums within 10 km39119
Museums within 2 km of centre1931
Share of museums within 2 km %4926
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. New York leads by 27 points.27
MontrealNew York
Score6289
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0124,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4932,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4948
Nightclubs within 4 km74192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 3 points.3
MontrealNew York
Score3639
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10069
Park area within 2 km189 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 22 points.22
MontrealNew York
Score5072
Tourist attractions within 2 km1137
Park area within 2 km189 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. New York leads by 18 points.18
MontrealNew York
Score5674
Notable places within 2 km98268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montreal leads by 11 points.11
MontrealNew York
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. New York leads by 8 points.8
MontrealNew York
Score5058
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Montreal
No coastline within reach
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3
New York
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealNew York
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
QuebecYQB
55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
2 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 5 m
€165-236
EWR · 14 km
BostonBOS, PSM
1 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 0 m
€193-222
JFK · 21 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 0 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
4 h 40 m
€374-446
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
CasablancaCMN
7 h 20 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureMontrealNew York
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation31 m25 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealNew York
City population1,895,2118,804,190
People per km²3,8067,256
Museums within 10 km37157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre97132
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.