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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montreal or Newport Beach?

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
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Newport Beach’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, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Newport Beach 50: Montreal leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Newport Beach 20: Montreal leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Newport Beach 33: Montreal leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal and Newport Beach are level on 66.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Newport Beach 20: Montreal leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Newport Beach 15: Montreal leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Newport Beach 46: Montreal leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Newport Beach 44: Montreal leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Newport Beach.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Newport Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontrealNewport Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealNewport Beach
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-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation31 m3 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealNewport Beach
City population1,895,21185,239
People per km²3,806622
Museums within 10 km374
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.