VacationSelector

Inverness or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Quebec City
✓ Best match
41
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

InvernessQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
InvernessQuebec City
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance1 km47 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 34 points.34
InvernessQuebec City
Score2155
Restaurants within 2 km of centre114387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1131
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 26 points.26
InvernessQuebec City
Score2046
Museums within 10 km626
Museums within 2 km of centre519
Share of museums within 2 km %8373
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Quebec City leads by 16 points.16
InvernessQuebec City
Score1531
Drinking venues within 4 km113250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8778
Nightclubs within 4 km48
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 34 points.34
InvernessQuebec City
Score943
Protected land share 50 km %127
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %88100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 50 points.50
InvernessQuebec City
Score050
Tourist attractions within 2 km312
Park area within 2 km3 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Quebec City leads by 19 points.19
InvernessQuebec City
Score2443
Notable places within 2 km1647
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Inverness and Quebec City are level on 54.
InvernessQuebec City
Score5454
Price level global84.984
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Inverness leads by 6 points.6
InvernessQuebec City
Score5246
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months10
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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessQuebec City
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 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

MeasureInvernessQuebec City
Official languageEnglishFrench, English
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation7 m98 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessQuebec City
City population47,380574,482
People per km²2,2891,184
Museums within 10 km316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre1547
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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.