VacationSelector

Nice or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Nice
✓ Best match
56
match

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

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on good for families 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.

NiceQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 73 points.73
NiceQuebec City
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km709
Coast distance1 km47 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 14 points.14
NiceQuebec City
Score6955
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,231387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2831
Museums & heritage. Nice and Quebec City are level on 46.
NiceQuebec City
Score4646
Museums within 10 km2726
Museums within 2 km of centre1419
Share of museums within 2 km %5273
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Nice leads by 13 points.13
NiceQuebec City
Score4431
Drinking venues within 4 km428250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9178
Nightclubs within 4 km268
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 14 points.14
NiceQuebec City
Score5743
Protected land share 50 km %247
Landscape blanket share 50 km %200
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 20 points.20
NiceQuebec City
Score3050
Tourist attractions within 2 km412
Park area within 2 km56 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 4 points.4
NiceQuebec City
Score4743
Notable places within 2 km6047
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 8 points.8
NiceQuebec City
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 28 points.28
NiceQuebec 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
Nice
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
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Nice
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
Nice
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
Nice
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. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

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

MeasureNiceQuebec City
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m98 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceQuebec City
City population357,737574,482
People per km²4,9751,184
Museums within 10 km1616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6547
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. 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). 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.