Quebec City or Sydney?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on value for money with your weighting.
Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.
What matters to you?
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
| Quebec City | Sydney | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 60 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 6 |
| Beaches 10 km | 9 | 160 |
| Coast distance | 47 km | 7 km |
| Water distance | — | 7 km |
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 23 points.23
| Quebec City | Sydney | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 55 | 78 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 387 | 2,205 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 31 | 31 |
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 5 points.5
| Quebec City | Sydney | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 46 | 51 |
| Museums within 10 km | 26 | 44 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 19 | 20 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 73 | 45 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 1 | 2 |
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 44 points.44
| Quebec City | Sydney | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 31 | 75 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 250 | 2,050 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 195 | 1,405 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 78 | 69 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 8 | 120 |
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 15 points.15
| Quebec City | Sydney | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 43 | 58 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 7 | 10 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 52 |
| Park area within 2 km | 172 hectares | 115 hectares |
Good for families. Sydney leads by 14 points.14
| Quebec City | Sydney | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 50 | 64 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 12 | 37 |
| Park area within 2 km | 172 hectares | 115 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 1 | 2 |
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 17 points.17
| Quebec City | Sydney | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 43 | 60 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 47 | 123 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Quebec City leads by 4 points.4
| Quebec City | Sydney | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 54 | 50 |
| Price level global | 84 | 90.2 |
| Daily budget | — | — |
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 35 points.35
| Quebec City | Sydney | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 46 | 81 |
| Monthly daytime high | -5.7 °C to 25.3 °C | 17.7 °C to 27.7 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 79 mm to 123 mm | 55 mm to 121 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). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).
Getting there
| Flying from | Quebec City | Sydney |
|---|---|---|
| TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ | 1 h 30 m no fares YQB · 13 km | 19 h 0 m no fares SYD · 9 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 1 h 30 m no fares YQB · 13 km | 19 h 30 m no fares SYD · 9 km |
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 6 h 55 m no fares YQB · 13 km | 20 h 35 m no fares SYD · 9 km |
| DallasDFW, DAL, AFW | 3 h 50 m no fares YQB · 13 km | 16 h 55 m no fares SYD · 9 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 | Sydney |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | French, English | English |
| Currency | Canadian Dollar (CAD) | Australian Dollar (AUD) |
| Sockets | AB120 V, 60 Hz | I230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Left |
| Time zone | UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer | UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer |
| Emergency number | 911 | 000 |
| Elevation | 98 m | 6 m |
| Main airport | Quebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations | Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 10 days | 11 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Quebec City | Sydney |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 574,482 | 5,450,496 |
| People per km² | 1,184 | 449 |
| Museums within 10 km | 16 | 38 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 1 | 2 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 47 | 79 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | – | 6 months |
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