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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0.

Montreal or Puerto Plata?

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
  • getting around
  • food and drink

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

Choose Puerto Plata for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’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, Puerto Plata 80: Puerto Plata leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Puerto Plata 40: Montreal leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Puerto Plata 35: Montreal leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Puerto Plata 38: Montreal leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal 66, Puerto Plata 68: Puerto Plata leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Puerto Plata 48: Montreal leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Puerto Plata 57: Montreal leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Puerto Plata 30: Montreal leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Puerto Plata 30: Montreal leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Puerto Plata 64: Puerto Plata leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Puerto Plata 18: Montreal leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Puerto Plata 35: Montreal leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Puerto Plata.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on beaches and prices 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Puerto Plata has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealPuerto Plata
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number911911
Elevation31 m34 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealPuerto Plata
City population1,895,211-
People per km²3,806-
Museums within 10 km371
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.