VacationSelector

Cork or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

CorkQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
CorkQuebec City
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance3 km47 km
Water distance3 km—
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 5 points.5
CorkQuebec City
Score5055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 23 points.23
CorkQuebec City
Score2346
Museums within 10 km1026
Museums within 2 km of centre819
Share of museums within 2 km %8073
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Cork leads by 7 points.7
CorkQuebec City
Score3831
Drinking venues within 4 km361250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8178
Nightclubs within 4 km98
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 9 points.9
CorkQuebec City
Score5243
Protected land share 50 km %—7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %74100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 23 points.23
CorkQuebec City
Score2750
Tourist attractions within 2 km712
Park area within 2 km48 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Quebec City leads by 21 points.21
CorkQuebec City
Score2243
Notable places within 2 km1447
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cork leads by 3 points.3
CorkQuebec City
Score5754
Price level global80.284
Daily budget€187—
Year-round weather. Cork leads by 3 points.3
CorkQuebec City
Score4946
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months00
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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
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
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkQuebec City
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 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.

Before you go

MeasureCorkQuebec City
Official languageEnglish, IrishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m98 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkQuebec City
City population222,333574,482
People per km²5,9611,184
Museums within 10 km516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4947
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). 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.