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Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Montreal or Valparaiso?

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

  • wellness
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Montreal 78, Valparaiso 50: Montreal leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Montreal 60, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Montreal 75, Valparaiso 56: Montreal leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montreal 66, Valparaiso 60: Montreal leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Montreal 55, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Montreal 68, Valparaiso 33: Montreal leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Montreal 72, Valparaiso 44: Montreal leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Montreal 60, Valparaiso 30: Montreal leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Montreal 45, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montreal 76, Valparaiso 38: Montreal leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montreal 57, Valparaiso 18: Montreal leads by 39 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montreal and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Montreal
Best match
61match

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

Valparaiso
46match

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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontrealValparaiso
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation31 m21 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealValparaiso
City population1,895,211296,655
People per km²3,8066,180
Museums within 10 km3717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.