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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Montreal or Saint-Tropez?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’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, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Saint-Tropez 48: Montreal leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Saint-Tropez 35: Montreal leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Saint-Tropez 60: Montreal leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal 66, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Saint-Tropez 42: Montreal leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Saint-Tropez 32: Montreal leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Saint-Tropez 8: Montreal leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Saint-Tropez 18: Montreal leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Saint-Tropez 35: Montreal leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Montreal
Best match
61match

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

Saint-Tropez
46match

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

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Saint-Tropez has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealSaint-Tropez
Official languageFrench, EnglishFrench
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m0 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealSaint-Tropez
City population1,895,2113,582
People per km²3,806320
Museums within 10 km374
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.