VacationSelector

Calgary or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Quebec City
✓ Best match
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Quebec City are level on 0.
CalgaryQuebec City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km49
Coast distance649 km47 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryQuebec City
Score6655
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3631
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 37 points.37
CalgaryQuebec City
Score946
Museums within 10 km826
Museums within 2 km of centre319
Share of museums within 2 km %3873
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 13 points.13
CalgaryQuebec City
Score4431
Drinking venues within 4 km465250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7478
Nightclubs within 4 km198
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 7 points.7
CalgaryQuebec City
Score3643
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 9 points.9
CalgaryQuebec City
Score4150
Tourist attractions within 2 km312
Park area within 2 km142 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Quebec City leads by 4 points.4
CalgaryQuebec City
Score3943
Notable places within 2 km3747
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Calgary and Quebec City are level on 54.
CalgaryQuebec City
Score5454
Price level global8484
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryQuebec City
Score5746
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months80
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Puerto VallartaPVR
4 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 0 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CancunCUN
5 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Puerto PlataPOP
6 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
6 h 55 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

MeasureCalgaryQuebec City
Official languageFrench, EnglishFrench, English
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,045 m98 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryQuebec City
City population1,306,784574,482
People per km²1,5831,184
Museums within 10 km1316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6747

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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). 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.