VacationSelector

Budapest or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

BudapestQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Quebec City are level on 0.
BudapestQuebec City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km69
Coast distance10,000 km47 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 22 points.22
BudapestQuebec City
Score7755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 18 points.18
BudapestQuebec City
Score6446
Museums within 10 km14426
Museums within 2 km of centre6419
Share of museums within 2 km %4473
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 41 points.41
BudapestQuebec City
Score7231
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6678
Nightclubs within 4 km978
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 3 points.3
BudapestQuebec City
Score4043
Protected land share 50 km %87
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km111 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 21 points.21
BudapestQuebec City
Score7150
Tourist attractions within 2 km7512
Park area within 2 km111 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 26 points.26
BudapestQuebec City
Score6943
Notable places within 2 km20647
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 26 points.26
BudapestQuebec City
Score8054
Price level global4884
Daily budget€104—
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 18 points.18
BudapestQuebec City
Score6446
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestQuebec City
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
2 h 30 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
2 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 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

MeasureBudapestQuebec City
Official languageHungarianFrench, English
CurrencyForint (HUF)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
Elevation117 m98 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestQuebec City
City population1,685,209574,482
People per km²3,2091,184
Museums within 10 km8116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8647

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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.