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Quebec City or Tampa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Tampa
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

Quebec CityTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
Quebec CityTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km910
Coast distance47 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 1 points.1
Quebec CityTampa
Score5554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre387359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3131
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 19 points.19
Quebec CityTampa
Score4627
Museums within 10 km2613
Museums within 2 km of centre1910
Share of museums within 2 km %7377
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tampa leads by 8 points.8
Quebec CityTampa
Score3139
Drinking venues within 4 km250324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre195227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7870
Nightclubs within 4 km826
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 13 points.13
Quebec CityTampa
Score4330
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km172 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 20 points.20
Quebec CityTampa
Score5030
Tourist attractions within 2 km123
Park area within 2 km172 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Quebec City leads by 22 points.22
Quebec CityTampa
Score4321
Notable places within 2 km4713
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Quebec City leads by 11 points.11
Quebec CityTampa
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 29 points.29
Quebec CityTampa
Score4675
Monthly daytime high-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 123 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
0255075100

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.

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Daytime high, °C
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Quebec City
No sunshine record
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromQuebec CityTampa
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
1 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
CancunCUN
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€163-176
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureQuebec CityTampa
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation98 m30 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CityTampa
City population574,482384,959
People per km²1,184848
Museums within 10 km166
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4747
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.