VacationSelector

Istanbul or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Istanbul
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

IstanbulQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Istanbul leads by 43 points.43
IstanbulQuebec City
Score430
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km29
Coast distance0 km47 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Istanbul leads by 15 points.15
IstanbulQuebec City
Score7055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,086387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2031
Museums & heritage. Istanbul leads by 20 points.20
IstanbulQuebec City
Score6646
Museums within 10 km14526
Museums within 2 km of centre7119
Share of museums within 2 km %4973
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Istanbul leads by 48 points.48
IstanbulQuebec City
Score7931
Drinking venues within 4 km2,266250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,176195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5278
Nightclubs within 4 km2218
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 18 points.18
IstanbulQuebec City
Score2543
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %48100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Istanbul leads by 17 points.17
IstanbulQuebec City
Score6750
Tourist attractions within 2 km6812
Park area within 2 km60 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Istanbul leads by 32 points.32
IstanbulQuebec City
Score7543
Notable places within 2 km28547
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Istanbul leads by 35 points.35
IstanbulQuebec City
Score8954
Price level global35.284
Daily budget€100—
Year-round weather. Istanbul leads by 23 points.23
IstanbulQuebec City
Score6946
Monthly daytime high9.2 °C to 29.7 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 101 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months40
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
Istanbul
9
10
12
17
22
27
30
30
26
21
16
11
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Istanbul
9
8
9
11
16
21
23
24
22
19
15
12
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Istanbul
74
74
66
47
29
29
23
29
43
85
79
101
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Istanbul
10
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
Istanbul
3
3
5
6
9
10
11
10
7
5
4
2
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Istanbul: 1991-2020 normals, Istanbul / Goztepe (9.9 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIstanbulQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
9 h 45 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 15 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 5 m
€608-794
IST · 36 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 15 m
€141-223
IST · 36 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
11 h 0 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CancunCUN
12 h 55 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
3 h 35 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
2 h 55 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
10 h 30 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
12 h 30 m
no fares
IST · 36 km
3 h 50 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

MeasureIstanbulQuebec City
Official languageTurkishFrench, English
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m98 m
Main airportİstanbul Airport (IST)36 km from centre345 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureIstanbulQuebec City
City population15,655,924574,482
People per km²2,9301,184
Museums within 10 km7216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6247
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months–

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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). 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.