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Château Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace, Quebec City
Quebec CityChâteau Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Quebec City by Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Quebec City or Sydney?

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
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Sydney for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Quebec City 57, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Quebec City 70, Sydney 60: Quebec City leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Quebec City 42, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quebec City 79, Sydney 85: Sydney leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Quebec City 58, Sydney 50: Quebec City leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Quebec City 64, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Quebec City 50, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Quebec City 45, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Quebec City 45, Sydney 22: Quebec City leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quebec City 52, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Quebec City and Sydney are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Quebec City and Sydney.

Your match

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

Quebec City
53match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on beaches and getting around 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

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Quebec CitySydney

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQuebec CitySydney
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation98 m6 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre34 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CitySydney
City population574,4825,450,496
People per km²1,184449
Museums within 10 km1638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.