Montreal or Paris: which climate?
Montreal (Canada) has a warm-summer humid continental climate, whereas Paris (France) has a temperate oceanic climate, according to the Köppen-Geiger classification.
The values compared here are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme. The same method and the same period apply to Montreal and to Paris.
Paris is warmer than Montreal by 4.2 °C in annual average: 10.9 °C against 6.7 °C.
Montreal gets more rain than Paris: 1,081 mm per year against 674 mm.
Montreal gets 8.5 hours of sunshine per day on average, against 7.7 hours in Paris.
Montreal and Paris are warming at the same rate: about +1.7 °C between 1940 and 2025 on both sides.
Montreal averages 9 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 146 frost days per year; Paris averages 6 and 44.
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
| Indicator | Montreal | Paris | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean daily temperature | 6.7 °C | 10.9 °C | +4.2 °C |
| Average daily high | 11.2 °C | 14.7 °C | +3.5 °C |
| Average daily low | 2.1 °C | 7.3 °C | +5.2 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,081 mm | 674 mm | -407 mm |
| Sunshine / day | 8.5 h | 7.7 h | -0.8 h |
| Hot days (≥ 30 °C) | 9 d/yr | 6 d/yr | negligible |
| Frost days (< 0 °C) | 146 d/yr | 44 d/yr | -102 d/yr |
| Rainy days (≥ 1 mm) | 138 d/yr | 129 d/yr | -9 d/yr |
| Mean relative humidity | 72 % | 78 % | +6 % |
| Average peak wind | 18.7 km/h | 18.1 km/h | negligible |
A difference is only reported when it exceeds the resolution of the data. ERA5 is a reanalysis on a grid of about 31 km: two nearby cities often fall in the same cell, and below half a degree you are reading the grid, not the climate.