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Quebec City or Zurich?

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 value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Zurich
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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 CityZurich
Beaches & swimming. Quebec City and Zurich are level on 0.
Quebec CityZurich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km923
Coast distance47 km632 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 12 points.12
Quebec CityZurich
Score5567
Restaurants within 2 km of centre387974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3130
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 10 points.10
Quebec CityZurich
Score4656
Museums within 10 km2676
Museums within 2 km of centre1937
Share of museums within 2 km %7349
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 23 points.23
Quebec CityZurich
Score3154
Drinking venues within 4 km250676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre195553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7882
Nightclubs within 4 km874
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 6 points.6
Quebec CityZurich
Score4337
Protected land share 50 km %716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km172 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Quebec City leads by 14 points.14
Quebec CityZurich
Score5036
Tourist attractions within 2 km128
Park area within 2 km172 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 16 points.16
Quebec CityZurich
Score4359
Notable places within 2 km47119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Quebec City leads by 19 points.19
Quebec CityZurich
Score5435
Price level global84110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Zurich leads by 7 points.7
Quebec CityZurich
Score4653
Monthly daytime high-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 123 mm60 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Quebec City
No sunshine record
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromQuebec CityZurich
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
CancunCUN
4 h 25 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Puerto PlataPOP
4 h 10 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
NantesNTE
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SXB · 146 km
MarseilleMRS
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SXB · 146 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 CityZurich
Official languageFrench, EnglishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation98 m408 m
Main airportQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuebec CityZurich
City population574,482452,421
People per km²1,1845,147
Museums within 10 km1663
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4778

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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. 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.