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Château Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace, Quebec City
Quebec CityChâteau Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Quebec City by Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Quebec City or Stockholm?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Quebec City 57, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Quebec City 70, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Quebec City 42, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quebec City 79, Stockholm 72: Quebec City leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Quebec City 58, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Quebec City 64, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Quebec City 50, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Quebec City 45, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Quebec City 45, Stockholm 30: Quebec City leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quebec City 52, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Quebec City 55, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Quebec City and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Quebec City
53match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and shopping 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQuebec CityStockholm
Official languageFrench, EnglishSwedish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation98 m22 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre34 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CityStockholm
City population574,482984,748
People per km²1,1845,260
Museums within 10 km16266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.