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Florence or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

FlorenceQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Quebec City are level on 0.
FlorenceQuebec City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km09
Coast distance78 km47 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Florence leads by 4 points.4
FlorenceQuebec City
Score5955
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1531
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 36 points.36
FlorenceQuebec City
Score8246
Museums within 10 km13226
Museums within 2 km of centre9319
Share of museums within 2 km %7073
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Florence leads by 25 points.25
FlorenceQuebec City
Score5631
Drinking venues within 4 km818250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7378
Nightclubs within 4 km348
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 5 points.5
FlorenceQuebec City
Score3843
Protected land share 50 km %97
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km86 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 2 points.2
FlorenceQuebec City
Score5250
Tourist attractions within 2 km3012
Park area within 2 km86 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 32 points.32
FlorenceQuebec City
Score7543
Notable places within 2 km29247
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceQuebec City
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 22 points.22
FlorenceQuebec City
Score6846
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months20
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceQuebec City
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
1 h 55 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 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 2026-08 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

MeasureFlorenceQuebec City
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m98 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceQuebec City
City population360,930574,482
People per km²3,5281,184
Museums within 10 km14016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6247

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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). 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.