VacationSelector

Montreal or Seattle?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Montreal
47
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

MontrealSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
MontrealSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km7100
Coast distance276 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 1 points.1
MontrealSeattle
Score7475
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0161,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4935
Museums & heritage. Montreal leads by 1 points.1
MontrealSeattle
Score3736
Museums within 10 km3928
Museums within 2 km of centre1917
Share of museums within 2 km %4961
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 5 points.5
MontrealSeattle
Score6257
Drinking venues within 4 km1,012873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre493696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4980
Nightclubs within 4 km7434
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 4 points.4
MontrealSeattle
Score3640
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km189 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 4 points.4
MontrealSeattle
Score5046
Tourist attractions within 2 km1117
Park area within 2 km189 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 4 points.4
MontrealSeattle
Score5652
Notable places within 2 km9876
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montreal leads by 11 points.11
MontrealSeattle
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 11 points.11
MontrealSeattle
Score5061
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months03
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seattle
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
Seattle
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealSeattle
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 20 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
4 h 35 m
€325-346
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 30 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 50 m
€204-286
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
CancunCUN
4 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 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

MeasureMontrealSeattle
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-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation31 m40 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealSeattle
City population1,895,211737,015
People per km²3,8061,996
Museums within 10 km3727
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9778
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. 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.