VacationSelector

Quebec City or Rome?

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

Your match

Quebec City
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Quebec CityRome
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
Quebec CityRome
Score033
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km93
Coast distance47 km24 km
Water distance—24 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 5 points.5
Quebec CityRome
Score5560
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3872,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3110
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 38 points.38
Quebec CityRome
Score4684
Museums within 10 km26161
Museums within 2 km of centre1979
Share of museums within 2 km %7349
Unesco sites within 50 km17
Nightlife. Rome leads by 43 points.43
Quebec CityRome
Score3174
Drinking venues within 4 km2502,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre195912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7845
Nightclubs within 4 km885
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 27 points.27
Quebec CityRome
Score4370
Protected land share 50 km %719
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km172 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 36 points.36
Quebec CityRome
Score5086
Tourist attractions within 2 km12126
Park area within 2 km172 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 56 points.56
Quebec CityRome
Score4399
Notable places within 2 km471,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 14 points.14
Quebec CityRome
Score5468
Price level global8464.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 25 points.25
Quebec CityRome
Score4671
Monthly daytime high-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 123 mm21 mm to 114 mm
Dry months03
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
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Quebec City
No sunshine record
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromQuebec CityRome
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€487-550
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
CancunCUN
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
NantesNTE
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
MarseilleMRS
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
1 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
FCO · 23 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

MeasureQuebec CityRome
Official languageFrench, EnglishItalian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation98 m21 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CityRome
City population574,4822,748,109
People per km²1,1842,135
Museums within 10 km16177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Distinct cuisines in the centre4765
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under 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.