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Getting around Mont-Royal: walking, cycling and transit times

à portée’s map shows the trip on foot, by bike and by transit from every populated block in Mont-Royal to the nearest grocery store, pharmacy, school, park and other everyday places. It is free, with no account.

residents in 2021
20,953
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
77%
typical walk to a grocery store
11 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
11th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Mont-Royal

Each block is coloured by the trip from it to the nearest place of the kind you pick, on foot, by bike or by transit. Move the map, or open it in à portée for any address and all 29 kinds of place.

Transit times are for a weekday at peak hours. A free plus account adds a mode and a time limit for each place, and transit at night on weekdays and at midday on Saturday and Sunday.

Getting around Mont-Royal

The share of Mont-Royal residents within a trip of each place, and the typical trip, by each way of getting there the free map offers.

PlaceOn footBy bikeBy transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store77%typical 11 min98%typical 5 min77%typical 11 min
Pharmacy83%typical 10 min100%typical 4 min83%typical 10 min
Park100%typical 3 min100%typical 1 min100%typical 3 min
Elementary school85%typical 10 min100%typical 4 min88%typical 10 min

Cycling and transit follow the street network, hills included. A transit trip includes the walk to and from the stops, at the median departure of a weekday morning peak, and is never slower than walking the whole way. Within 15 minutes means under 16: times are rounded down to the whole minute.

Mont-Royal in numbers

77% of Mont-Royal residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store50%77%>99%100%11 min
Pharmacy55%83%98%100%10 min
Park100%100%100%100%3 min
Elementary school50%85%100%100%10 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Quebec and Canada

PlaceMont-RoyalQuebecCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store77%49%45%11th of 1,0004th of 259 in Quebec
Pharmacy83%49%51%10th of 1,0005th of 259 in Quebec
Park100%83%82%1st of 1,0001st of 259 in Quebec
Elementary school85%53%55%12th of 1,0005th of 259 in Quebec
Share of Mont-Royal residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min77%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min77%

Mont-Royal Quebec

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Mont-Royal in population, and the share of their residents within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store. Communities are 2021 census subdivisions (cities, towns, counties and other municipalities), compared within their municipal boundaries.

CommunityResidentsGrocery within 15 min
Essex21,21632%
Varennes21,19844%
Huntsville21,14712%
Mont-Royal20,95377%
Beaumont20,88832%

More places across the Montréal census division

The Montréal census division has 2,004,265 residents, 1% of them in Mont-Royal. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store90%
  • Café85%
  • Bakery73%
  • Library45%
  • Playground98%
  • Childcare91%
  • Community centre68%
  • Clinic62%

Other communities in the Montréal area

Beside each community is the share of its residents who can reach a grocery store within a 15-minute walk.

Shares of 2021 residents of populated census blocks, on foot along the street network. How the walking times are computed

Travel times are our best estimates from open data published October 8, 2026 and can contain errors. Walking and cycling times are rounded down, so “within 15 minutes” means under 16. Check before an important decision, and tell us if something looks wrong.

Questions

Is Mont-Royal walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Mont-Royal, 77% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Mont-Royal ranks 11th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Mont-Royal by bike?

By bike, 98% of Mont-Royal residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 100% a pharmacy, 100% a park and 100% an elementary school. On foot, 77% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 5 min by bike and 11 min on foot. Cycling times follow the street network, hills included; they don’t say whether a street is safe or comfortable to ride.

Does transit help you reach everyday places in Mont-Royal?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 77% of Mont-Royal residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 77% on foot and 98% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes 11 min by transit and 11 min on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk.

Is Mont-Royal a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 77% of residents reach a grocery store, 83% a pharmacy, 100% a park and 85% an elementary school. These figures count each place separately; open the map to see how many residents have all four within 15 minutes, for the places you choose.

How does Mont-Royal compare with communities of a similar size?

In Mont-Royal, 77% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 32% in Essex, 44% in Varennes, 12% in Huntsville and 32% in Beaumont.

Where does this data come from?

Walking, cycling and transit times follow the street network, hills included, from each populated 2021 census block to the nearest place of each kind. Transit uses the operators’ published timetables at the weekday morning peak. Places come from OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, with health care and schools checked against Statistics Canada’s open databases. Shares are weighted by 2021 population. Data published 8 October 2026. How the times are computed

Mont-Royal in brief

Province
Quebec
Census division
Montréal
Census subdivision code
2466072
Residents in 2021
20,953
Data published
8 October 2026
Provinces: Natural Earth.

Sources: places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and the Overture Maps Foundation; census blocks, 2021 populations and municipal boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada under the Open Government Licence – Canada; transit times from the operators’ published timetables; elevation from Natural Resources Canada; province outlines from Natural Earth; links from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Figures derived from OpenStreetMap are under the ODbL. Data sources and licences

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