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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Antibes or Hiroshima?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Antibes for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Antibes’s own page.

Choose Hiroshima for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Antibes 80, Hiroshima 30: Antibes leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Hiroshima 62: Antibes leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Hiroshima 80: Antibes leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Hiroshima.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Antibes
52match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesHiroshima
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesHiroshima
City population77,6371,198,021
People per km²2,9301,324
Museums within 10 km1418
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.