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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Montreal or Salt Lake City?

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

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • getting around

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Montreal leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Salt Lake City 40: Montreal leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Salt Lake City 42: Montreal leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Salt Lake City 30: Montreal leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal 66, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Salt Lake City 34: Montreal leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Salt Lake City 42: Montreal leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Salt Lake City 36: Montreal leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Salt Lake City 40: Montreal leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Salt Lake City 55: Montreal leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Salt Lake City 38: Montreal leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Salt Lake City.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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
15 hdaylight a day

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontrealSalt Lake City

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealSalt Lake City
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-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation31 m1,288 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealSalt Lake City
City population1,895,211199,723
People per km²3,806690
Museums within 10 km3712
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.