VacationSelector

Quebec City or Rotterdam?

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

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 CityRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
Quebec CityRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km922
Coast distance47 km24 km
Water distance—24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 17 points.17
Quebec CityRotterdam
Score5572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre387862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3146
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 14 points.14
Quebec CityRotterdam
Score4660
Museums within 10 km2641
Museums within 2 km of centre1920
Share of museums within 2 km %7349
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 18 points.18
Quebec CityRotterdam
Score3149
Drinking venues within 4 km250542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre195378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7870
Nightclubs within 4 km840
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 1 points.1
Quebec CityRotterdam
Score4342
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km172 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 12 points.12
Quebec CityRotterdam
Score5062
Tourist attractions within 2 km1227
Park area within 2 km172 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 8 points.8
Quebec CityRotterdam
Score4351
Notable places within 2 km4774
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
Quebec CityRotterdam
Score5458
Price level global8479.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Rotterdam leads by 10 points.10
Quebec CityRotterdam
Score4656
Monthly daytime high-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 123 mm42 mm to 85 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
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Quebec City
No sunshine record
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromQuebec CityRotterdam
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
CancunCUN
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
NantesNTE
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
MarseilleMRS
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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 CityRotterdam
Official languageFrench, EnglishDutch
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 911
Elevation98 m10 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CityRotterdam
City population574,482664,311
People per km²1,1842,080
Museums within 10 km1640
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre4777
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.