VacationSelector

Quebec City or Tromso?

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

Your match

Quebec City
✓ Best match
41
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 CityTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
Quebec CityTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km914
Coast distance47 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 31 points.31
Quebec CityTromso
Score5524
Restaurants within 2 km of centre38785
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3116
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 23 points.23
Quebec CityTromso
Score4623
Museums within 10 km2610
Museums within 2 km of centre198
Share of museums within 2 km %7380
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Quebec City leads by 24 points.24
Quebec CityTromso
Score317
Drinking venues within 4 km25067
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre19561
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7891
Nightclubs within 4 km85
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 32 points.32
Quebec CityTromso
Score4311
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km172 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 36 points.36
Quebec CityTromso
Score5014
Tourist attractions within 2 km129
Park area within 2 km172 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Quebec City leads by 15 points.15
Quebec CityTromso
Score4328
Notable places within 2 km4720
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Quebec City and Tromso are level on 54.
Quebec CityTromso
Score5454
Price level global8485.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. Quebec City leads by 13 points.13
Quebec CityTromso
Score4633
Monthly daytime high-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 123 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months00
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
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Quebec City
No sunshine record
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromQuebec CityTromso
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureQuebec CityTromso
Official languageFrench, EnglishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation98 m20 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CityTromso
City population574,48279,943
People per km²1,18432
Museums within 10 km168
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4723
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. 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.