VacationSelector

Montreal or Venice?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Montreal
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MontrealVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
MontrealVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km720
Coast distance276 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 29 points.29
MontrealVenice
Score7445
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,016750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4910
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 35 points.35
MontrealVenice
Score3772
Museums within 10 km3957
Museums within 2 km of centre1945
Share of museums within 2 km %4979
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 27 points.27
MontrealVenice
Score6235
Drinking venues within 4 km1,012342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre493306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4989
Nightclubs within 4 km743
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 19 points.19
MontrealVenice
Score3617
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km189 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 7 points.7
MontrealVenice
Score5057
Tourist attractions within 2 km1172
Park area within 2 km189 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 27 points.27
MontrealVenice
Score5683
Notable places within 2 km98464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 14 points.14
MontrealVenice
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 16 points.16
MontrealVenice
Score5066
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
4 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureMontrealVenice
Official languageFrench, EnglishItalian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m2 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealVenice
City population1,895,211250,369
People per km²3,806602
Museums within 10 km3752
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre9746
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.