Montrealers are lucky, because the city is literally overflowing with nature (have you seen the green alleys lately?) and becausein the fall, you can see Mount Royal turn from green to red from almost anywhere.
But to see the colors—thereal colors—we recommend heading out of Montreal and into the forests of the greater Montreal area forweekend hikes…
The region is vast, and the colors of the leaves (from yellow to red, from gold to almost black brown) change depending on the weather, rain, wind, and the ground cooling down at night. To see the most beautiful colors of Montreal’s fall at just the right time, BONJOUR QUEBEC has an interactive online map where you can find the colors at their peak in the region.
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AN INTERACTIVE MAP OF QUEBEC’S MOST BEAUTIFUL FALL COLORS
Every week, the regional tourism website BONJOUR QUÉBEC updates its 2026 FALL COLOR MAP. The map tracks the progression of the leaves’ color change in Quebec’s forests, from green to yellow and on to the bright red of the season’s most beautiful days.
The map is organized into colored dots, and all you have to do is zoom in on your favorite forest or mountain to see if the season has begun and what stage the colors are at. The color legend follows Quebec’s 6-stage color progression.
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Regional parks, museums, cultural venues, major parks, and ski resorts are listed and reviewed. For now, it’s only early September, and the colors have just started to appear on the North Shore. In Montreal, they tend to show up around October.
October is expected to be fairly mild, with average highs of 13 degrees and lows of 7 degrees. It’s the perfect temperature for the colors to emerge gradually and last a long time.
Mild weather usually means a bit of rain, and there will be 9 days of rain this month—but 14 days of sunshine. The last week of October—Halloween week—is forecast to have temperatures around ten degrees, with sunshine and a few clouds. This year, we’ll be celebrating Halloween without our winter coats.
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