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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montreal or Tunis?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Tunis for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Tunis 60: Montreal leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Tunis 33: Montreal leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal 66, Tunis 45: Montreal leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Tunis 38: Montreal leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Tunis 48: Montreal leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Tunis 50: Montreal leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Tunis 38: Montreal leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Tunis.

Your match

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

Montreal
Best match
61match

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

Tunis
56match

Wins on prices 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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealTunis
Official languageFrench, EnglishArabic
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation31 m4 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealTunis
City population1,895,211602,560
People per km²3,8062,834
Museums within 10 km3716
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.