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Bologna or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BolognaQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Quebec City are level on 0.
BolognaQuebec City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km29
Coast distance74 km47 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 3 points.3
BolognaQuebec City
Score5855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2031
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 21 points.21
BolognaQuebec City
Score6746
Museums within 10 km5826
Museums within 2 km of centre4319
Share of museums within 2 km %7473
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 22 points.22
BolognaQuebec City
Score5331
Drinking venues within 4 km720250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7478
Nightclubs within 4 km308
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 4 points.4
BolognaQuebec City
Score3943
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 5 points.5
BolognaQuebec City
Score5550
Tourist attractions within 2 km3212
Park area within 2 km119 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 17 points.17
BolognaQuebec City
Score6043
Notable places within 2 km12047
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 14 points.14
BolognaQuebec City
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 21 points.21
BolognaQuebec City
Score6746
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months50
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
1 h 55 m
no fares
FLR · 77 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 25 m
no fares
TSF · 145 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 40 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
11 h 0 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
3 h 50 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

MeasureBolognaQuebec City
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m98 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaQuebec City
City population387,971574,482
People per km²2,7541,184
Museums within 10 km6616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6247

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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. 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.