VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on value for money 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.

CopenhagenQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenQuebec City
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km179
Coast distance1 km47 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 18 points.18
CopenhagenQuebec City
Score7355
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3731
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenQuebec City
Score7546
Museums within 10 km8326
Museums within 2 km of centre5119
Share of museums within 2 km %6173
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 36 points.36
CopenhagenQuebec City
Score6731
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5878
Nightclubs within 4 km648
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenQuebec City
Score5043
Protected land share 50 km %57
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 21 points.21
CopenhagenQuebec City
Score7150
Tourist attractions within 2 km5412
Park area within 2 km138 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 31 points.31
CopenhagenQuebec City
Score7443
Notable places within 2 km27347
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Quebec City leads by 2 points.2
CopenhagenQuebec City
Score5254
Price level global87.884
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Copenhagen leads by 9 points.9
CopenhagenQuebec City
Score5546
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months30
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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 45 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
2 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
2 h 25 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 20 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 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

MeasureCopenhagenQuebec City
Official languageDanishFrench, English
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation14 m98 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenQuebec City
City population667,099574,482
People per km²7,3391,184
Museums within 10 km7216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8247
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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.