VacationSelector

Oslo or Quebec City?

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

Your match

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

OsloQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 60 points.60
OsloQuebec City
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1639
Coast distance1 km47 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 12 points.12
OsloQuebec City
Score6755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3431
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 2 points.2
OsloQuebec City
Score4846
Museums within 10 km7026
Museums within 2 km of centre3719
Share of museums within 2 km %5373
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 22 points.22
OsloQuebec City
Score5331
Drinking venues within 4 km695250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8178
Nightclubs within 4 km418
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 18 points.18
OsloQuebec City
Score6143
Protected land share 50 km %227
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %94100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 2 points.2
OsloQuebec City
Score4850
Tourist attractions within 2 km1312
Park area within 2 km88 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 26 points.26
OsloQuebec City
Score6943
Notable places within 2 km20747
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Oslo and Quebec City are level on 54.
OsloQuebec City
Score5454
Price level global85.184
Daily budget€203—
Year-round weather. Oslo leads by 2 points.2
OsloQuebec City
Score4846
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 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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Daytime high, °C
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
Quebec City
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloQuebec City
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
1 h 30 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 2026-09 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

MeasureOsloQuebec City
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiFrench, English
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)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 numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation23 m98 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloQuebec City
City population717,710574,482
People per km²–1,184
Museums within 10 km6016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7547
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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). 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.