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Bucharest or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money 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.

BucharestQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Quebec City are level on 0.
BucharestQuebec City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km39
Coast distance198 km47 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 12 points.12
BucharestQuebec City
Score6755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4131
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 3 points.3
BucharestQuebec City
Score4946
Museums within 10 km7326
Museums within 2 km of centre4019
Share of museums within 2 km %5573
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 31 points.31
BucharestQuebec City
Score6231
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5378
Nightclubs within 4 km808
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 7 points.7
BucharestQuebec City
Score3643
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 18 points.18
BucharestQuebec City
Score6850
Tourist attractions within 2 km4512
Park area within 2 km133 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 18 points.18
BucharestQuebec City
Score6143
Notable places within 2 km13047
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 31 points.31
BucharestQuebec City
Score8554
Price level global40.984
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestQuebec City
Score6346
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months10
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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
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
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestQuebec City
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
2 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBucharestQuebec City
Official languageRomanianFrench, English
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)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
Elevation70 m98 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestQuebec City
City population1,716,961574,482
People per km²7,5971,184
Museums within 10 km4116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6847

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.