VacationSelector

Montreal or Rovaniemi?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
23
match

Wins on value for money 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.

MontrealRovaniemi
Beaches & swimming. Montreal and Rovaniemi are level on 0.
MontrealRovaniemi
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km713
Coast distance276 km99 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 53 points.53
MontrealRovaniemi
Score7421
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,01680
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4914
Museums & heritage. Montreal leads by 17 points.17
MontrealRovaniemi
Score3720
Museums within 10 km398
Museums within 2 km of centre197
Share of museums within 2 km %4988
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 58 points.58
MontrealRovaniemi
Score624
Drinking venues within 4 km1,01252
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre49342
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4981
Nightclubs within 4 km743
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 20 points.20
MontrealRovaniemi
Score3616
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km189 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 29 points.29
MontrealRovaniemi
Score5021
Tourist attractions within 2 km112
Park area within 2 km189 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 31 points.31
MontrealRovaniemi
Score5625
Notable places within 2 km9817
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rovaniemi leads by 2 points.2
MontrealRovaniemi
Score5456
Price level global8481.6
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. Montreal leads by 7 points.7
MontrealRovaniemi
Score5043
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm30 mm to 75 mm
Dry months05
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
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Sunshine, hours per day
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3
Rovaniemi
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). Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealRovaniemi
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
DublinDUB
6 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
7 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
MadridMAD
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 0 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 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

MeasureMontrealRovaniemi
Official languageFrench, EnglishFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m88 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealRovaniemi
City population1,895,21165,329
People per km²3,8069
Museums within 10 km376
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9716

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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.