VacationSelector

Madrid or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Quebec City
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

MadridQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Madrid and Quebec City are level on 0.
MadridQuebec City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km49
Coast distance305 km47 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 28 points.28
MadridQuebec City
Score8355
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,508387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2831
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 29 points.29
MadridQuebec City
Score7546
Museums within 10 km9726
Museums within 2 km of centre5919
Share of museums within 2 km %6173
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 50 points.50
MadridQuebec City
Score8131
Drinking venues within 4 km2,414250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6278
Nightclubs within 4 km3418
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 20 points.20
MadridQuebec City
Score6343
Protected land share 50 km %197
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km187 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 27 points.27
MadridQuebec City
Score7750
Tourist attractions within 2 km6112
Park area within 2 km187 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 32 points.32
MadridQuebec City
Score7543
Notable places within 2 km28847
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 17 points.17
MadridQuebec City
Score7154
Price level global60.884
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 26 points.26
MadridQuebec City
Score7246
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months70
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
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
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CancunCUN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
1 h 35 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 35 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureMadridQuebec City
Official languageSpanishFrench, 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
Elevation663 m98 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridQuebec City
City population3,506,730574,482
People per km²5,8011,184
Museums within 10 km8816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre10647

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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.