Cap Diamant
Cap Diamant is a cape on an edge of the Promontory of Quebec and on which Quebec City is located, formed by the confluence of a bend in the St.
Cap Diamant is a cape on an edge of the Promontory of Quebec and on which Quebec City is located, formed by the confluence of a bend in the St. Lawrence River to the south and east, and the much smaller Saint-Charles River to the north.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Cap Diamant
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Old Quebec
Historic neighborhood in Quebec City, Canada, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site
700 m · Wikipedia - 02
- 03Notre-Dame Basilica-Cathedral
Catholic basilica-cathedral in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
600 m · Wikipedia - 04
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Cap Diamant
- Airports
- Quebec Jean Lesage (YQB), 15 km · Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 246 km
- Stations
- Gare du Palais, 1.3 km · Port of Quebec, 1.3 km
- Montréal → Cap Diamant233 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · C$31–42
- Ottawa → Cap Diamant21 km · quickest by road, 36 min · C$3–4
- Hamilton → Cap DiamantTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Cap Diamant
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cap Diamant. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundCross with the ferry for $3.65 (an experience in itself) and bike west on the south shore until you reach the Quebec Bridge and cross back on the north shore to connect with the Samuel-de-Champlain promenade and Corridor du Littoral.
- Get aroundDriving in the Old Town can be tricky, since the cobblestone streets were designed for narrow 17th-century horse carts rather than 21st-century SUVs.
- Get aroundBy charter bus Operates a ferry across the St.
- Get aroundThe ferry operates throughout the year between 6 am and 2 am.
- Get aroundThe ferry departs typically once an hour to Quebec City and once an hour from Quebec City, but frequency of departures increases up to every 40 minutes to Quebec City during the weekday morning rush hour and up to every 40 minutes to Lévis during the weekday afternoon rush hour.
From Wikivoyage: Quebec City, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Cap Diamant
Cap Diamant is 1 km from Québec, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Quebec Citycapital city of the province of Quebec, Canada1.9 km
- Léviscity in Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, Canada1.7 km
- Château Frontenacgrand hotel in Quebec City400 m
- Stadacona16th-century Iroquoian village near present-day Quebec City; origin of the name "Canada"3.6 km
- Notre-Dame-des-Angesparish municipality near Quebec City, Canada2.5 km
- La Cité-Limoilouborough of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada3.1 km