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Château Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace, Quebec City
Quebec CityChâteau Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Quebec City by Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Quebec City or Sorrento?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Quebec City for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Quebec City’s own page.

Choose Sorrento for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Sorrento’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Quebec City 18, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Quebec City 57, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Quebec City 70, Sorrento 32: Quebec City leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Quebec City 42, Sorrento 28: Quebec City leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quebec City 79, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Quebec City 58, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Quebec City 64, Sorrento 42: Quebec City leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Quebec City 50, Sorrento 58: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Quebec City 45, Sorrento 38: Quebec City leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Quebec City 45, Sorrento 32: Quebec City leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quebec City 52, Sorrento 20: Quebec City leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Quebec City 55, Sorrento 48: Quebec City leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Quebec City and Sorrento.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Quebec City
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Sorrento
49match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Quebec City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
119 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Sorrento in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sorrento has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Sorrento's sunshine is measured 54 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQuebec CitySorrento
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 m50 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre34 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CitySorrento
City population574,48215,407
People per km²1,1841,541
Museums within 10 km166
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.