Quebec City or Santiago de Compostela?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Too close to call, 1 point apart
Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.
Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.
Beaches & swimming. Quebec City and Santiago de Compostela are level on 0.
| Quebec City | Santiago de Compostela | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 9 | 0 |
| Coast distance | 47 km | 26 km |
| Water distance | — | 26 km |
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 7 points.7
| Quebec City | Santiago de Compostela | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 55 | 48 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 387 | 336 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 31 | 23 |
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 2 points.2
| Quebec City | Santiago de Compostela | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 46 | 44 |
| Museums within 10 km | 26 | 16 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 19 | 14 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 73 | 88 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 1 | 2 |
Nightlife. Santiago de Compostela leads by 5 points.5
| Quebec City | Santiago de Compostela | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 31 | 36 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 250 | 306 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 195 | 268 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 78 | 88 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 8 | 13 |
Nature & day trips. Santiago de Compostela leads by 3 points.3
| Quebec City | Santiago de Compostela | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 43 | 46 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 7 | 11 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 92 |
| Park area within 2 km | 172 hectares | 109 hectares |
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 23 points.23
| Quebec City | Santiago de Compostela | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 50 | 27 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 12 | 2 |
| Park area within 2 km | 172 hectares | 109 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 1 | 0 |
Sights concentration. Quebec City leads by 1 points.1
| Quebec City | Santiago de Compostela | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 43 | 42 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 47 | 44 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Santiago de Compostela leads by 17 points.17
| Quebec City | Santiago de Compostela | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 54 | 71 |
| Price level global | 84 | 60.8 |
| Daily budget | — | €122 |
Year-round weather. Santiago de Compostela leads by 16 points.16
| Quebec City | Santiago de Compostela | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 46 | 62 |
| Monthly daytime high | -5.7 °C to 25.3 °C | 11.3 °C to 25 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 79 mm to 123 mm | 41 mm to 223 mm |
| Dry months | 0 | 0 |
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).
Getting there
| Flying from | Quebec City | Santiago de Compostela |
|---|---|---|
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 6 h 55 m no fares YQB · 13 km | 1 h 55 m no fares SCQ · 10 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.
Before you go
| Measure | Quebec City | Santiago de Compostela |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | French, English | Spanish |
| Currency | Canadian Dollar (CAD) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | AB120 V, 60 Hz | CF230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 911 | 112 |
| Elevation | 98 m | 260 m |
| Main airport | Quebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations | Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 10 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Quebec City | Santiago de Compostela |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 574,482 | 100,965 |
| People per km² | 1,184 | 459 |
| Museums within 10 km | 16 | 6 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 1 | 2 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 47 | 38 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | – | None |
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