VacationSelector

Montreal or Prague?

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

Your match

Montreal
47
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

MontrealPrague
Beaches & swimming. Montreal and Prague are level on 0.
MontrealPrague
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km77
Coast distance276 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 1 points.1
MontrealPrague
Score7475
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0161,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4929
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 35 points.35
MontrealPrague
Score3772
Museums within 10 km39138
Museums within 2 km of centre19100
Share of museums within 2 km %4972
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Prague leads by 15 points.15
MontrealPrague
Score6277
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0122,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4931,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4965
Nightclubs within 4 km74123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 9 points.9
MontrealPrague
Score3645
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km189 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 25 points.25
MontrealPrague
Score5075
Tourist attractions within 2 km1154
Park area within 2 km189 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 20 points.20
MontrealPrague
Score5676
Notable places within 2 km98310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 21 points.21
MontrealPrague
Score5475
Price level global8455.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Prague leads by 11 points.11
MontrealPrague
Score5061
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months07
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
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). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 0 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
AthensATH
9 h 40 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 30 m
€132-140
PRG · 12 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 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

MeasureMontrealPrague
Official languageFrench, EnglishCzech
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m235 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealPrague
City population1,895,2111,397,880
People per km²3,8062,817
Museums within 10 km3788
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9789

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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. 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.