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Montreal or Portland?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Montreal
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on 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.

MontrealPortland
Beaches & swimming. Montreal and Portland are level on 0.
MontrealPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km727
Coast distance276 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal and Portland are level on 74.
MontrealPortland
Score7474
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0161,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4944
Museums & heritage. Montreal leads by 2 points.2
MontrealPortland
Score3735
Museums within 10 km3923
Museums within 2 km of centre1915
Share of museums within 2 km %4965
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 4 points.4
MontrealPortland
Score6258
Drinking venues within 4 km1,012942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre493518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4955
Nightclubs within 4 km7432
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 1 points.1
MontrealPortland
Score3635
Protected land share 50 km %213
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km189 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 16 points.16
MontrealPortland
Score5034
Tourist attractions within 2 km118
Park area within 2 km189 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 21 points.21
MontrealPortland
Score5635
Notable places within 2 km9829
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montreal leads by 11 points.11
MontrealPortland
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 15 points.15
MontrealPortland
Score5065
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm13 mm to 145 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
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3
Portland
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). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealPortland
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 20 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
4 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 30 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
DenverDEN, APA
3 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 30 m
€167-182
PDX · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
2 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
BostonBOS, PSM
1 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 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

MeasureMontrealPortland
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 m152 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealPortland
City population1,895,211652,503
People per km²3,8061,736
Museums within 10 km3717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9782

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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. 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.