VacationSelector

Lucerne or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Quebec City
✓ Best match
41
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LucerneQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Lucerne and Quebec City are level on 0.
LucerneQuebec City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km169
Coast distance669 km47 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 8 points.8
LucerneQuebec City
Score4755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2531
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 6 points.6
LucerneQuebec City
Score4046
Museums within 10 km2326
Museums within 2 km of centre1319
Share of museums within 2 km %5773
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Quebec City leads by 3 points.3
LucerneQuebec City
Score2831
Drinking venues within 4 km202250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km118
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 18 points.18
LucerneQuebec City
Score2543
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 12 points.12
LucerneQuebec City
Score3850
Tourist attractions within 2 km1512
Park area within 2 km29 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Quebec City leads by 8 points.8
LucerneQuebec City
Score3543
Notable places within 2 km2947
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Quebec City leads by 19 points.19
LucerneQuebec City
Score3554
Price level global110.584
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Lucerne leads by 7 points.7
LucerneQuebec City
Score5346
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLucerneQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CancunCUN
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Puerto PlataPOP
9 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
1 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLucerneQuebec City
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshFrench, English
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation436 m98 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneQuebec City
City population86,234574,482
People per km²2,9631,184
Museums within 10 km1416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4647

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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). 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.