VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

HeidelbergQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Heidelberg and Quebec City are level on 0.
HeidelbergQuebec City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km69
Coast distance406 km47 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergQuebec City
Score4755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 13 points.13
HeidelbergQuebec City
Score5946
Museums within 10 km5426
Museums within 2 km of centre2319
Share of museums within 2 km %4373
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Quebec City leads by 4 points.4
HeidelbergQuebec City
Score2731
Drinking venues within 4 km201250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8478
Nightclubs within 4 km88
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 31 points.31
HeidelbergQuebec City
Score7443
Protected land share 50 km %527
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 7 points.7
HeidelbergQuebec City
Score4350
Tourist attractions within 2 km2912
Park area within 2 km20 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Quebec City leads by 7 points.7
HeidelbergQuebec City
Score3643
Notable places within 2 km3147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Heidelberg leads by 6 points.6
HeidelbergQuebec City
Score6054
Price level global75.984
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Heidelberg leads by 15 points.15
HeidelbergQuebec City
Score6146
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
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Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 69 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 30 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CancunCUN
10 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Puerto PlataPOP
9 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 20 m
€656-803
2 stops
FRA · 69 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
no fares
SXB · 125 km
6 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

MeasureHeidelbergQuebec City
Official languageGermanFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation114 m98 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergQuebec City
City population162,960574,482
People per km²1,4961,184
Museums within 10 km1716
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre4547

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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.