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3 days in Montreal

A complete 3-day Montreal itinerary with 14 places, arranged so each stop is open when you arrive and the walking between them stays sensible.

Days
3
Places
14
Time in transit
242 min
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Why the stops are in this order

Most itineraries you find online are a list of places worth seeing, left in whatever order the writer thought of them. That is the part that falls apart on the day: you arrive somewhere at 17:40 and it closed at 17:00, or you cross the city twice because two neighbouring sights sat on different days.

This plan is sequenced instead of listed. Every stop below is checked against the opening hours of the place itself, and the gaps between them are real door-to-door travel times, not straight-line distance on a map. The visiting windows shown are what is actually achievable in a day.

Across all 3 days this route spends 242 minutes in transit — that number is the point. Reordering the same 14 places carelessly can easily double it, and that time comes straight out of your trip.

Day 1

09:00–21:30 · 4 places · 80 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 14 min by public transport

    Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal

    09:14–10:14 1 hr

  3. 43 min by public transport

    Mount Royal Park

    10:57–12:57 2 hr

  4. Lunch

    12:57–13:27 30 min

  5. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

    13:27–15:27 2 hr

  6. 23 min by public transport

    Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History

    15:50–17:50 2 hr

Day 2

09:00–21:30 · 5 places · 98 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 27 min by public transport

    The Biosphere, Environment Museum

    09:27–10:42 1 hr 15 min

  3. 5 min walk

    Parc Jean-Drapeau

    10:47–13:47 3 hr

  4. Lunch

    13:47–14:17 30 min

  5. Montreal Biodome

    14:17–15:47 1 hr 30 min

  6. 21 min walk

    Jardin botanique de Montréal

    16:08–18:08 2 hr

  7. 45 min by public transport

    Vieux-Port de Montréal

    18:53–20:53 2 hr

Day 3

09:00–21:30 · 5 places · 64 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 9 min walk

    The Ring

    09:09–09:39 30 min

  3. 26 min by public transport

    La Grande Roue de Montréal

    10:05–11:20 1 hr 15 min

  4. Lunch

    12:00–12:30 30 min

  5. Place de la Grande-Paix-de-Montréal

    12:30–13:15 45 min

  6. 7 min walk

    Port of Montreal Tower

    13:22–14:07 45 min

  7. 22 min by public transport

    L’Anneau

    14:29–14:59 30 min

Make it your trip

The schedule above is built for a generic 3-day visit. Open it in the planner to set your own dates — the timings recalculate against the opening hours for those specific days, which matters more than it sounds when a museum closes on Mondays. You can drag stops between days, swap anything you are not interested in, and the rest of the day re-sequences around the change.

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