VacationSelector

Montreal or Zagreb?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Montreal
47
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on value for money 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.

MontrealZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Montreal and Zagreb are level on 0.
MontrealZagreb
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km78
Coast distance276 km117 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 22 points.22
MontrealZagreb
Score7452
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,016374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4927
Museums & heritage. Zagreb leads by 8 points.8
MontrealZagreb
Score3745
Museums within 10 km3941
Museums within 2 km of centre1940
Share of museums within 2 km %4998
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 1 points.1
MontrealZagreb
Score6261
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0121,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre493571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4957
Nightclubs within 4 km7463
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 2 points.2
MontrealZagreb
Score3634
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km189 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 22 points.22
MontrealZagreb
Score5028
Tourist attractions within 2 km117
Park area within 2 km189 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 4 points.4
MontrealZagreb
Score5660
Notable places within 2 km98122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 26 points.26
MontrealZagreb
Score5480
Price level global8448.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 12 points.12
MontrealZagreb
Score5062
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months00
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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zagreb
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
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
6
4
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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMontrealZagreb
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
7 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
12 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureMontrealZagreb
Official languageFrench, EnglishCroatian
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 m127 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealZagreb
City population1,895,211767,131
People per km²3,806
Museums within 10 km3727
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9742

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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. 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.