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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Montreal or Valencia?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Valencia 74: Montreal leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Valencia 66: Montreal leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal 66, Valencia 60: Montreal leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Valencia 57: Montreal leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Valencia 55: Montreal leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Valencia 42: Montreal leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Valencia.

Your match

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

Montreal
61match

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

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealValencia
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m15 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealValencia
City population1,895,211840,792
People per km²3,8066,242
Museums within 10 km3745
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

Where else could you go?

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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.