Living in Montreal

Montreal, Canada, about 1,762,949 people. What you would earn and keep, the climate month by month, and every open figure we hold, each with its source, period and licence.

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Key facts

• Montreal has about 1,762,949 residents (GeoNames).
• On a gross salary of CA$94,000 a year, an employee in Montreal takes home about CA$65,775 a year (CA$5,481 a month) after income tax and employee contributions, an effective rate of 30.0% (Canada 2026 rules). Quebec: federal tax is cut by the 16.5% Quebec abatement; QPP and QPIP replace CPP and part of EI. Quebec: the only credit is the basic personal amount; no solidarity, work premium or other income-tested credits.
• A one-bedroom home in Montreal rents for about CA$1,131 a month (metro area figure; CMHC Rental Market Survey: average rents (Statistics Canada table 34-10-0133-01), Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 2025-10).
• In Montreal the average daily high (air temperature in the shade) peaks at 25.1 °C in July and the average daily low falls to −13.7 °C in January (Historical weather (ERA5 reanalysis), Open-Meteo, 2021-2025).
• Montreal has about 36 nice days a year, days that are dry, mostly clear and feel 18 to 30 °C on average from 8 am to 8 pm, most of them in July (10) (Historical weather (ERA5 reanalysis), Open-Meteo, 2021-2025).
• Between 2021 and 2025 the air in Montreal reached 33.2 °C at its hottest and −32.6 °C at its coldest (Historical weather (ERA5 reanalysis), Open-Meteo).
• It rains or snows (at least 1 mm) on about 141 days a year in Montreal (Historical weather (ERA5 reanalysis), Open-Meteo, 2021-2025).
• The shortest day in Montreal lasts 8 h 42 min and the longest 15 h 41 min (computed from latitude).
• Fine dust (PM2.5) in Montreal averages 8.6 µg/m³ a year, 1.7 times the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³ (WHO Ambient Air Quality Database v8.0 (2026), World Health Organization, 2023).
• Everyday prices in Canada sit at 90.2 on an index where the United States is 100 (World Development Indicators, World Bank, 2025).
• Life expectancy at birth in Canada is 82.1 years (World Development Indicators, World Bank, 2024).
• Canada records 1.98 intentional homicides per 100,000 people a year (World Development Indicators, World Bank, 2023).
• Only citizens of Canada can live and work in Montreal without a visa or permit; everyone else needs one.

What you would take home

Employee, single, wages only: federal tax with basic, CPP/EI and employment credits, CPP or QPP, EI, QPIP, plus provincial tax for Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec. Rules for 2026. Sources: CRA: tax rates and income brackets 2026, CRA: indexation adjustment for personal income tax amounts, CRA: CPP contribution rates, maximums and exemptions, CRA: second additional CPP (CPP2) rates and maximums, CRA: EI premium rates and maximums, Revenu Québec: employers' principal changes for 2026, Revenu Québec: income tax rates, Revenu Québec: line 201, deduction for workers.

• An RRSP contribution set as your pension share is deducted within this year's room; no union dues, GST/HST credit, Canada Workers Benefit or other refundable credits.
• One employer for the whole year: contributions stop at the yearly maximums.
• Quebec: federal tax is cut by the 16.5% Quebec abatement; QPP and QPIP replace CPP and part of EI.
• Quebec: the only credit is the basic personal amount; no solidarity, work premium or other income-tested credits.

A month in Montreal

Assumed: one person, €60,000 gross a year, renting a one-bedroom home, and everyday spending of €1,200 a month in Lisbon scaled by each country's price level. These are the app's defaults; change any of them there.

Who can live and work here freely

• Citizens of Canada.
• Everyone else needs a visa or permit.

Climate

Daylight is computed from latitude: the shortest day lasts 8 h 42 min, the longest 15 h 41 min.

Every figure

No open figure yet for: your childcare cost, health insurance premium, public swimming pools (official), green urban areas (official), commuting by public transport, commute time, monthly transit pass, road deaths, born abroad, walking or cycling to work. A country-wide figure is marked as such where it stands in for the city.

Compare Montreal with

• Montreal vs Boston
• Montreal vs Chicago
• Montreal vs Miami
• Montreal vs New York
• Montreal vs Toronto
• Montreal vs Vancouver

Elsewhere

Sources we link to but do not copy, because their licences forbid it.

• Numbeo: cost of living in Montreal
• WeatherSpark: year-round weather in Montreal
• Wikipedia: Montreal

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Borgo, “Living in Montreal”, https://borgo.abcastor.com/city/montreal-ca/, figures as of 2026-11-05. Please also name the original source of any figure you use; each is listed above with its licence. Data: montreal-ca.json.