VacationSelector
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Thessaloniki by Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montreal or Thessaloniki?

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
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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, Thessaloniki 55: Thessaloniki leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Thessaloniki 77: Montreal leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal and Thessaloniki are level on 66.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Thessaloniki 74: Thessaloniki leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Thessaloniki 50: Montreal leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Thessaloniki 60: Montreal leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Thessaloniki 50: Montreal leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Thessaloniki 52: Montreal leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Thessaloniki 33: Montreal leads by 24 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Thessaloniki.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Montreal
61match

Wins on live music and the arts and wellness with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
61match

Wins on beaches and prices 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

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

-10°0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0255075100125JFMAMJJASOND
MontrealThessaloniki

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealThessaloniki
Official languageFrench, EnglishGreek
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m6 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealThessaloniki
City population1,895,211309,617
People per km²3,80616,042
Museums within 10 km3732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Montreal or Thessaloniki somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.