VacationSelector

Quebec City or Zadar?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Zadar
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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 CityZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 73 points.73
Quebec CityZadar
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km949
Coast distance47 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Quebec City leads by 30 points.30
Quebec CityZadar
Score5525
Restaurants within 2 km of centre387143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3111
Museums & heritage. Quebec City leads by 13 points.13
Quebec CityZadar
Score4633
Museums within 10 km268
Museums within 2 km of centre198
Share of museums within 2 km %73100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Quebec City leads by 6 points.6
Quebec CityZadar
Score3125
Drinking venues within 4 km250194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre195139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7872
Nightclubs within 4 km84
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 12 points.12
Quebec CityZadar
Score4355
Protected land share 50 km %712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10047
Park area within 2 km172 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 19 points.19
Quebec CityZadar
Score5031
Tourist attractions within 2 km129
Park area within 2 km172 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Quebec City leads by 12 points.12
Quebec CityZadar
Score4331
Notable places within 2 km4723
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 26 points.26
Quebec CityZadar
Score5480
Price level global8448.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 23 points.23
Quebec CityZadar
Score4669
Monthly daytime high-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 123 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Quebec City
No coastline within reach
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromQuebec CityZadar
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
MarseilleMRS
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
NantesNTE
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 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 2026-09, 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 CityZadar
Official languageFrench, EnglishCroatian
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 m5 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CityZadar
City population574,48270,779
People per km²1,184
Museums within 10 km161
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4717
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.