VacationSelector

Montreal or Salzburg?

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.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on museums & heritage and 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.

MontrealSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Montreal and Salzburg are level on 0.
MontrealSalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km79
Coast distance276 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 25 points.25
MontrealSalzburg
Score7449
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,016348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4923
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 23 points.23
MontrealSalzburg
Score3760
Museums within 10 km3942
Museums within 2 km of centre1927
Share of museums within 2 km %4964
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 26 points.26
MontrealSalzburg
Score6236
Drinking venues within 4 km1,012294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre493241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4982
Nightclubs within 4 km7416
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 9 points.9
MontrealSalzburg
Score3627
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km189 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 2 points.2
MontrealSalzburg
Score5048
Tourist attractions within 2 km1117
Park area within 2 km189 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 10 points.10
MontrealSalzburg
Score5646
Notable places within 2 km9854
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 5 points.5
MontrealSalzburg
Score5459
Price level global8476.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Salzburg leads by 4 points.4
MontrealSalzburg
Score5054
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm47 mm to 168 mm
Dry months00
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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealSalzburg
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
9 h 40 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
LisbonLIS
6 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
CasablancaCMN
7 h 20 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMontrealSalzburg
Official languageFrench, EnglishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m424 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealSalzburg
City population1,895,211155,021
People per km²3,8062,360
Museums within 10 km3738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre9750

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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.