VacationSelector

Mexico City or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather 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.

Mexico CityQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Quebec City are level on 0.
Mexico CityQuebec City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km49
Coast distance247 km47 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 11 points.11
Mexico CityQuebec City
Score6655
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1531
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
Mexico CityQuebec City
Score7946
Museums within 10 km13826
Museums within 2 km of centre6519
Share of museums within 2 km %4773
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 47 points.47
Mexico CityQuebec City
Score7831
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4378
Nightclubs within 4 km1988
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 20 points.20
Mexico CityQuebec City
Score6343
Protected land share 50 km %307
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City and Quebec City are level on 50.
Mexico CityQuebec City
Score5050
Tourist attractions within 2 km2312
Park area within 2 km32 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 11 points.11
Mexico CityQuebec City
Score5443
Notable places within 2 km8847
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
Mexico CityQuebec City
Score7654
Price level global54.284
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 44 points.44
Mexico CityQuebec City
Score9046
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months60
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Puerto VallartaPVR
1 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 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

MeasureMexico CityQuebec City
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,240 m98 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityQuebec City
City population9,209,944574,482
People per km²6,2021,184
Museums within 10 km10816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre5047

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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.