VacationSelector

London or Quebec City?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

LondonQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. London and Quebec City are level on 0.
LondonQuebec City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km479
Coast distance43 km47 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. London leads by 33 points.33
LondonQuebec City
Score8855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4031
Museums & heritage. London leads by 26 points.26
LondonQuebec City
Score7246
Museums within 10 km14826
Museums within 2 km of centre4919
Share of museums within 2 km %3373
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. London leads by 64 points.64
LondonQuebec City
Score9531
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4678
Nightclubs within 4 km3128
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 3 points.3
LondonQuebec City
Score4043
Protected land share 50 km %167
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 25 points.25
LondonQuebec City
Score7550
Tourist attractions within 2 km8512
Park area within 2 km84 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. London leads by 46 points.46
LondonQuebec City
Score8943
Notable places within 2 km64947
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. London and Quebec City are level on 54.
LondonQuebec City
Score5454
Price level global84.984
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. London leads by 17 points.17
LondonQuebec City
Score6346
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CancunCUN
10 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 45 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
1 h 20 m
no fares
STN · 49 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 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

MeasureLondonQuebec 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
Elevation4 m98 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonQuebec City
City population8,799,728574,482
People per km²5,5981,184
Museums within 10 km21516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre11647

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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). 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.