VacationSelector

Montreal or Oslo?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

MontrealOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
MontrealOslo
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km7163
Coast distance276 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 7 points.7
MontrealOslo
Score7467
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,016853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4934
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 11 points.11
MontrealOslo
Score3748
Museums within 10 km3970
Museums within 2 km of centre1937
Share of museums within 2 km %4953
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 9 points.9
MontrealOslo
Score6253
Drinking venues within 4 km1,012695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre493562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4981
Nightclubs within 4 km7441
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 25 points.25
MontrealOslo
Score3661
Protected land share 50 km %222
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10094
Park area within 2 km189 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 2 points.2
MontrealOslo
Score5048
Tourist attractions within 2 km1113
Park area within 2 km189 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 13 points.13
MontrealOslo
Score5669
Notable places within 2 km98207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montreal and Oslo are level on 54.
MontrealOslo
Score5454
Price level global8485.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Montreal leads by 2 points.2
MontrealOslo
Score5048
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
7 h 30 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
5 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 15 m
€109-152
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
12 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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

MeasureMontrealOslo
Official languageFrench, EnglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation31 m23 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealOslo
City population1,895,211717,710
People per km²3,806
Museums within 10 km3760
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9775
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.