VacationSelector

Quebec City or Vancouver?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Quebec CityVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
Quebec CityVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km9109
Coast distance47 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 19 points.19
Quebec CityVancouver
Score5574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3871,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3135
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 12 points.12
Quebec CityVancouver
Score4634
Museums within 10 km2627
Museums within 2 km of centre1915
Share of museums within 2 km %7356
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 26 points.26
Quebec CityVancouver
Score3157
Drinking venues within 4 km250848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre195602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7871
Nightclubs within 4 km844
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 34 points.34
Quebec CityVancouver
Score4377
Protected land share 50 km %719
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km172 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 3 points.3
Quebec CityVancouver
Score5053
Tourist attractions within 2 km1215
Park area within 2 km172 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 5 points.5
Quebec CityVancouver
Score4348
Notable places within 2 km4763
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Quebec City and Vancouver are level on 54.
Quebec CityVancouver
Score5454
Price level global8484
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Vancouver leads by 7 points.7
Quebec CityVancouver
Score4653
Monthly daytime high-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 123 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Quebec City
No sunshine record
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromQuebec CityVancouver
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
CancunCUN
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Puerto VallartaPVR
5 h 35 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
CalgaryYYC
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€73-86
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
CharlotteCLT
2 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 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 2026-09 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 CityVancouver
Official languageFrench, EnglishFrench, English
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation98 m2 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CityVancouver
City population574,482662,248
People per km²1,1845,759
Museums within 10 km1626
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4785
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.