VacationSelector

Alicante or Quebec City?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Alicante
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AlicanteQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteQuebec City
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km339
Coast distance1 km47 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteQuebec City
Score6655
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3131
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 4 points.4
AlicanteQuebec City
Score4246
Museums within 10 km1426
Museums within 2 km of centre1119
Share of museums within 2 km %7973
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 20 points.20
AlicanteQuebec City
Score5131
Drinking venues within 4 km591250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8378
Nightclubs within 4 km548
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 3 points.3
AlicanteQuebec City
Score4043
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 8 points.8
AlicanteQuebec City
Score4250
Tourist attractions within 2 km1312
Park area within 2 km60 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Quebec City leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteQuebec City
Score2643
Notable places within 2 km1847
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteQuebec City
Score7154
Price level global60.884
Daily budget€122—
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 41 points.41
AlicanteQuebec City
Score8746
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months110
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 35 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteQuebec City
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m98 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteQuebec City
City population366,221574,482
People per km²1,8191,184
Museums within 10 km816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5247
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months–

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.