VacationSelector

New York or Quebec City?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on value for money and 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.

New YorkQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
New YorkQuebec City
Score640
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km179
Coast distance1 km47 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 40 points.40
New YorkQuebec City
Score9555
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3831
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 14 points.14
New YorkQuebec City
Score6046
Museums within 10 km11926
Museums within 2 km of centre3119
Share of museums within 2 km %2673
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. New York leads by 58 points.58
New YorkQuebec City
Score8931
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4878
Nightclubs within 4 km1928
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 4 points.4
New YorkQuebec City
Score3943
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 22 points.22
New YorkQuebec City
Score7250
Tourist attractions within 2 km3712
Park area within 2 km134 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. New York leads by 31 points.31
New YorkQuebec City
Score7443
Notable places within 2 km26847
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Quebec City leads by 11 points.11
New YorkQuebec City
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. New York leads by 12 points.12
New YorkQuebec City
Score5846
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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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A
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Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
New York
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

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
1 h 15 m
€229-272
LGA · 13 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 20 m
€201-385
LGA · 13 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CharlotteCLT
1 h 40 m
€168-247
LGA · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Fort LauderdaleFLL, FXE
2 h 40 m
€175-259
LGA · 13 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
CancunCUN
3 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
4 h 25 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

MeasureNew YorkQuebec City
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation25 m98 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkQuebec City
City population8,804,190574,482
People per km²7,2561,184
Museums within 10 km15716
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre13247
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. 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). 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.