VacationSelector

Montreal or York?

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

Your match

Montreal
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

MontrealYork
Beaches & swimming. Montreal and York are level on 0.
MontrealYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km72
Coast distance276 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 20 points.20
MontrealYork
Score7454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,016361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4931
Museums & heritage. York leads by 9 points.9
MontrealYork
Score3746
Museums within 10 km3918
Museums within 2 km of centre1916
Share of museums within 2 km %4989
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 19 points.19
MontrealYork
Score6243
Drinking venues within 4 km1,012450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre493353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4978
Nightclubs within 4 km7414
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 3 points.3
MontrealYork
Score3633
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km189 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 7 points.7
MontrealYork
Score5043
Tourist attractions within 2 km1113
Park area within 2 km189 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 17 points.17
MontrealYork
Score5639
Notable places within 2 km9837
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Montreal and York are level on 54.
MontrealYork
Score5454
Price level global8484.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. York leads by 6 points.6
MontrealYork
Score5056
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months01
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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A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealYork
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MalagaAGP
7 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BridgetownBGI
5 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
PalmaPMI
7 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AgadirAGA
7 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
GenevaGVA
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureMontrealYork
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation31 m25 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealYork
City population1,895,211208,400
People per km²3,806766
Museums within 10 km3724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre9754

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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. 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.