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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Montreal or Puerto Princesa?

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
  • nightlife
  • day trips

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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 Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Puerto Princesa 38: Montreal leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Puerto Princesa 22: Montreal leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Puerto Princesa 26: Montreal leads by 49 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal 66, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Puerto Princesa 12: Montreal leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Puerto Princesa 45: Montreal leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Puerto Princesa 30: Montreal leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Puerto Princesa 20: Montreal leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Puerto Princesa 10: Montreal leads by 66 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Puerto Princesa 40: Montreal leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Puerto Princesa.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

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 Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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 Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMontrealPuerto Princesa
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911911
Elevation31 m98 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealPuerto Princesa
City population1,895,211316,384
People per km²3,806133
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.