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Quebec City or West Palm Beach?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
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 CityWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
Quebec CityWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km910
Coast distance47 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 18 points.18
Quebec CityWest Palm Beach
Score5537
Restaurants within 2 km of centre387262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3114
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 29 points.29
Quebec CityWest Palm Beach
Score4617
Museums within 10 km265
Museums within 2 km of centre193
Share of museums within 2 km %7360
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Quebec City leads by 11 points.11
Quebec CityWest Palm Beach
Score3120
Drinking venues within 4 km250132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre19590
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7868
Nightclubs within 4 km810
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 26 points.26
Quebec CityWest Palm Beach
Score4369
Protected land share 50 km %715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km172 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 29 points.29
Quebec CityWest Palm Beach
Score5021
Tourist attractions within 2 km123
Park area within 2 km172 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Quebec City leads by 31 points.31
Quebec CityWest Palm Beach
Score4312
Notable places within 2 km478
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Quebec City leads by 11 points.11
Quebec CityWest Palm Beach
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 29 points.29
Quebec CityWest Palm Beach
Score4675
Monthly daytime high-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 123 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromQuebec CityWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 50 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
1 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
FLL · 72 km
CancunCUN
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
FLL · 72 km
Puerto PlataPOP
4 h 10 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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 CityWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CityWest Palm Beach
City population574,482117,415
People per km²1,184786
Museums within 10 km164
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4718
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.