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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Montreal or Phnom Penh?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Montreal leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Phnom Penh 62: Montreal leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Phnom Penh 58: Montreal leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal 66, Phnom Penh 28: Montreal leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Phnom Penh 34: Montreal leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Phnom Penh 32: Montreal leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Phnom Penh 35: Montreal leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Phnom Penh 46: Montreal leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Phnom Penh 32: Montreal leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Phnom Penh 50: Montreal leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Phnom Penh.

Your match

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

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Phnom Penh
44match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontrealPhnom Penh

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealPhnom Penh
Official languageFrench, EnglishKhmer
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Riel (KHR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation31 m11 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealPhnom Penh
City population1,895,2112,129,371
People per km²3,8063,138
Museums within 10 km373
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.