VacationSelector

Athens or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Quebec City
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AthensQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 48 points.48
AthensQuebec City
Score480
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km149
Coast distance6 km47 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 14 points.14
AthensQuebec City
Score6955
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2531
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 27 points.27
AthensQuebec City
Score7346
Museums within 10 km12226
Museums within 2 km of centre7819
Share of museums within 2 km %6473
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Athens leads by 50 points.50
AthensQuebec City
Score8131
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5078
Nightclubs within 4 km1368
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 2 points.2
AthensQuebec City
Score4543
Protected land share 50 km %57
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %50100
Park area within 2 km128 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 21 points.21
AthensQuebec City
Score7150
Tourist attractions within 2 km6812
Park area within 2 km128 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 32 points.32
AthensQuebec City
Score7543
Notable places within 2 km29147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 20 points.20
AthensQuebec City
Score7454
Price level global55.884
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 28 points.28
AthensQuebec City
Score7446
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months70
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
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
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromAthensQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 15 m
€634
ATH · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
11 h 0 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
3 h 25 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
2 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
10 h 25 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CharlotteCLT
11 h 0 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 25 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAthensQuebec City
Official languageGreekFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation74 m98 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensQuebec City
City population643,452574,482
People per km²16,4991,184
Museums within 10 km8816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8247
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.