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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Montreal or San Juan?

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

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • wellness

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

Choose San Juan for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’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, San Juan 84: San Juan leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, San Juan 66: Montreal leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, San Juan 64: San Juan leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, San Juan 70: Montreal leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal 66, San Juan 74: San Juan leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Montreal 55, San Juan 52: Montreal leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, San Juan 58: Montreal leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, San Juan 38: Montreal leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, San Juan 50: Montreal leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, San Juan 38: Montreal leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, San Juan 55: Montreal leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, San Juan 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 San Juan.

Your match

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

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

San Juan
57match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontrealSan Juan

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealSan Juan
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish, English
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number911911
Elevation31 m3 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealSan Juan
City population1,895,211342,259
People per km²3,8062,847
Museums within 10 km3718
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.