VacationSelector

Montreal or Nice?

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 good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Nice
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

MontrealNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 73 points.73
MontrealNice
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km770
Coast distance276 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 5 points.5
MontrealNice
Score7469
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0161,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4928
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 9 points.9
MontrealNice
Score3746
Museums within 10 km3927
Museums within 2 km of centre1914
Share of museums within 2 km %4952
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 18 points.18
MontrealNice
Score6244
Drinking venues within 4 km1,012428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre493388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4991
Nightclubs within 4 km7426
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 21 points.21
MontrealNice
Score3657
Protected land share 50 km %224
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km189 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 20 points.20
MontrealNice
Score5030
Tourist attractions within 2 km114
Park area within 2 km189 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 9 points.9
MontrealNice
Score5647
Notable places within 2 km9860
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 8 points.8
MontrealNice
Score5462
Price level global8473.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 24 points.24
MontrealNice
Score5074
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months03
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
LisbonLIS
6 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
GenevaGVA
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 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

MeasureMontrealNice
Official languageFrench, EnglishFrench
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m0 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealNice
City population1,895,211357,737
People per km²3,8064,975
Museums within 10 km3716
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre9765
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. 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. 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.