VacationSelector

Montreal or Strasbourg?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Montreal
47
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

MontrealStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Montreal and Strasbourg are level on 0.
MontrealStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km79
Coast distance276 km398 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 7 points.7
MontrealStrasbourg
Score7467
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,016780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4936
Museums & heritage. Strasbourg leads by 4 points.4
MontrealStrasbourg
Score3741
Museums within 10 km3923
Museums within 2 km of centre1914
Share of museums within 2 km %4961
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 26 points.26
MontrealStrasbourg
Score6236
Drinking venues within 4 km1,012305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre493264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4987
Nightclubs within 4 km7417
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 18 points.18
MontrealStrasbourg
Score3654
Protected land share 50 km %237
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km189 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 12 points.12
MontrealStrasbourg
Score5038
Tourist attractions within 2 km119
Park area within 2 km189 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 2 points.2
MontrealStrasbourg
Score5658
Notable places within 2 km98109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 8 points.8
MontrealStrasbourg
Score5462
Price level global8473.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 13 points.13
MontrealStrasbourg
Score5063
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm34 mm to 77 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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealStrasbourg
PalmaPMI
7 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
NiceNCE
7 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
2 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
CasablancaCMN
7 h 20 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureMontrealStrasbourg
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 m132 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealStrasbourg
City population1,895,211293,771
People per km²3,8063,752
Museums within 10 km3721
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9787

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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.