VacationSelector

Dublin or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

DublinQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinQuebec City
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km119
Coast distance3 km47 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 15 points.15
DublinQuebec City
Score7055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3731
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 9 points.9
DublinQuebec City
Score5546
Museums within 10 km4726
Museums within 2 km of centre3719
Share of museums within 2 km %7973
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 33 points.33
DublinQuebec City
Score6431
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km408
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 17 points.17
DublinQuebec City
Score2643
Protected land share 50 km %37
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 4 points.4
DublinQuebec City
Score5450
Tourist attractions within 2 km4112
Park area within 2 km43 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 19 points.19
DublinQuebec City
Score6243
Notable places within 2 km14147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 3 points.3
DublinQuebec City
Score5754
Price level global80.284
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Dublin leads by 8 points.8
DublinQuebec City
Score5446
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 15 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
6 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
1 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
2 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureDublinQuebec 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
Elevation20 m98 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinQuebec City
City population592,713574,482
People per km²5,1541,184
Museums within 10 km4016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7447
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.