VacationSelector

Quebec City or Valencia?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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 CityValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
Quebec CityValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km912
Coast distance47 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 23 points.23
Quebec CityValencia
Score5578
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3871,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3133
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
Quebec CityValencia
Score4655
Museums within 10 km2659
Museums within 2 km of centre1926
Share of museums within 2 km %7344
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 39 points.39
Quebec CityValencia
Score3170
Drinking venues within 4 km2501,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre195957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7863
Nightclubs within 4 km8108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 10 points.10
Quebec CityValencia
Score4353
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km172 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 8 points.8
Quebec CityValencia
Score5042
Tourist attractions within 2 km1212
Park area within 2 km172 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
Quebec CityValencia
Score4352
Notable places within 2 km4778
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 17 points.17
Quebec CityValencia
Score5471
Price level global8460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 38 points.38
Quebec CityValencia
Score4684
Monthly daytime high-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 123 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Quebec City
No sunshine record
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromQuebec CityValencia
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
NantesNTE
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
MarseilleMRS
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
VLC · 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. 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 CityValencia
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation98 m15 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CityValencia
City population574,482840,792
People per km²1,1846,242
Museums within 10 km1646
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4792
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.