VacationSelector

Monaco or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Monaco
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

MonacoQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
MonacoQuebec City
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km509
Coast distance0 km47 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 16 points.16
MonacoQuebec City
Score3955
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1631
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 8 points.8
MonacoQuebec City
Score3846
Museums within 10 km2326
Museums within 2 km of centre819
Share of museums within 2 km %3573
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Quebec City leads by 23 points.23
MonacoQuebec City
Score831
Drinking venues within 4 km69250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9178
Nightclubs within 4 km78
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 10 points.10
MonacoQuebec City
Score5343
Protected land share 50 km %247
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km15 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 15 points.15
MonacoQuebec City
Score3550
Tourist attractions within 2 km1412
Park area within 2 km15 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 21 points.21
MonacoQuebec City
Score6443
Notable places within 2 km15447
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 28 points.28
MonacoQuebec City
Score7446
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm79 mm to 123 mm
Dry months30
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
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
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
1 h 35 m
€129-163
NCE · 18 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 25 m
no fares
NCE · 18 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMonacoQuebec City
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation68 m98 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoQuebec City
City population38,857574,482
People per km²18,5031,184
Museums within 10 km1416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2947
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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). 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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.