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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Montreal or Tromso?

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

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Tromso for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Montreal leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Tromso 36: Montreal leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Tromso 27: Montreal leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Tromso 38: Montreal leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal 66, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Tromso 14: Montreal leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Tromso 45: Montreal leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Tromso 60: Montreal leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Tromso 15: Montreal leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Tromso 11: Montreal leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Tromso 32: Montreal leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Tromso 38: Montreal leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Tromso.

Your match

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

Montreal
Best match
61match

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

Tromso
35match

Wins on 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MontrealTromso

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealTromso
Official languageFrench, EnglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation31 m20 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealTromso
City population1,895,21179,943
People per km²3,80632
Museums within 10 km378
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.