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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Montreal or Stockholm?

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
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Stockholm 64: Montreal leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Stockholm 57: Montreal leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal 66, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Stockholm 30: Montreal leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Stockholm 65: Montreal leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Stockholm 56: Montreal leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Montreal
61match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealStockholm
Official languageFrench, EnglishSwedish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m22 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealStockholm
City population1,895,211984,748
People per km²3,8065,260
Museums within 10 km37266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.