Survey ranks Victoria 2nd-best city in Canada<\/p>\n
Published 4:30 pm Friday, July 10, 2026<\/p>\n
Among the hundreds of towns and cities that pepper Canada\u2019s forests, coastlines and prairies, Victoria has been named one of the best.<\/p>\n
Travel + Leisure recently released its 2026 World\u2019s Best Award, which annually ranks the best places to stay, eat and explore in Canada and beyond, as decided by its readers.<\/p>\n
This year, Victoria was voted the second-best city in Canada, behind Quebec City.<\/p>\n
Victoria received an 83.77 score, while Quebec City took home an 86.99 ranking.<\/p>\n
Scores are calculated directly from the website\u2019s annual World\u2019s Best Awards survey, where respondents rate specific cities based on sights\/landmarks, culture\/arts, food, friendliness and overall value.<\/p>\n
Ottawa (83.11), Montreal (82.78) and Vancouver (82.73) ranked behind Victoria in third, fourth and fifth spots, respectively.<\/p>\n
Vancouver Island even ranked as the country\u2019s best Island ahead of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.<\/p>\n
As part of this year\u2019s World\u2019s Best Awards survey, more than 661,000 votes were cast on everything from safari outfitters to airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Survey ranks Victoria 2nd-best city in Canada Published 4:30 pm Friday, July 10, 2026 Among the hundreds of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-795018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}