Tourist office Montreal
Tourisme Montréal, the organisation that promotes Montreal as a tourism destination, runs 1 walk-in tourist information office in the city: the Montréal Tourist Information Office at 174 Notre-Dame Street East, at the corner of Place Jacques-Cartier in Old Montreal. Its staff give tourist information on Montreal and sell tourist bus and transit fares. For the rest of Quebec, the Quebec Ministry of Tourism runs the seasonal Centre Infotouriste, listed below as an alternative, and the ministry and Tourisme Montréal plan to open a year-round multiservice tourist centre in 2027.
Where to find the tourist offices in Montreal
Montréal Tourist Information Office
Location: 174 Notre-Dame Street East, at the corner of Place Jacques-Cartier; Champ-de-Mars metro
Opening hours: From 1 September to 31 October 2026, every day from 10:00 to 18:00; the hours change with the seasons
Run by Tourisme Montréal. Staff give tourist information on Montreal and sell tourist bus and transit fares, by card only.
Centre Infotouriste de Montréal
Location: 1442 rue Clark; Place-des-Arts and Saint-Laurent metro stations
Opening hours: Seasonal: open from 1 May to 30 August in 2026; the dates of the next season are to be announced and no daily hours are published
Not run by Tourisme Montréal: a centre of the Quebec Ministry of Tourism with tourist information on every region of Quebec.
Explore Montreal in detail
Explore Montreal in detail
The Montreal guide on Tourist Office sets out what to visit in Montréal in a first day that starts on Place Jacques-Cartier, steps inside Notre-Dame Basilica and follows the Old Port before heading past McGill University and Christ Church Cathedral to the Kondiaronk Lookout on Mount Royal.
It also picks out what costs nothing, from Saint Joseph's Oratory to the murals of Mile End, adds Jean-Talon Market, the Biosphere and the Lachine Canal, and lists the concerts, matches and shows coming up in the weeks ahead.
Public holidays in Montreal to plan around
Public holidays can change the rhythm of a visit. Offices, banks, shops and attractions may close or switch to holiday hours, and transport timetables can change, so a day built around a single errand or attraction is worth checking in advance. In Quebec, statutory holidays are set for the whole province, and the CNESST, the provincial labour standards body, lists 8 of them. In 2026 they fall on the dates below. For Easter, the holiday is Good Friday or Easter Monday at the employer's option, so the day off can differ from one workplace to the next.
Public holidays in Quebec 2026
- 1 January New Year's Day (jour de l'An)
- 3 April or 6 April Good Friday or Easter Monday, at the employer's option
- 18 May National Patriots' Day (Journée nationale des patriotes)
- 24 June Quebec National Holiday (fête nationale du Québec)
- 1 July Canada Day (fête du Canada)
- 7 September Labour Day (fête du Travail)
- 12 October Thanksgiving (Action de grâces)
- 25 December Christmas Day (jour de Noël)
Local holidays in Montreal 2026
Montreal adds no local holidays to the Quebec list. Statutory holidays are set province-wide by the Loi sur les normes du travail and the Loi sur la fête nationale, and none of them is specific to the city. The Quebec list does not include 26 December.
Two dates observed under federal law are not statutory holidays in Quebec: Remembrance Day on 11 November and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on 30 September. According to the CNESST, they are holidays only for employees covered by the Canada Labour Code, such as federal public servants and bank staff.
Tourisme Montréal's own profile of its office in Old Montreal says the office closes from 24 December to 3 January.