VacationSelector

Athens or Cannes?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Cannes
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AthensCannes
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 25 points.25
AthensCannes
Score4873
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km1468
Coast distance6 km1 km
Water distance6 km1 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 19 points.19
AthensCannes
Score6950
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431473
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2519
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 37 points.37
AthensCannes
Score7336
Museums within 10 km12231
Museums within 2 km of centre785
Share of museums within 2 km %6416
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Athens leads by 53 points.53
AthensCannes
Score8128
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718188
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354164
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5087
Nightclubs within 4 km13619
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 12 points.12
AthensCannes
Score4533
Protected land share 50 km %517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %5053
Park area within 2 km128 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 46 points.46
AthensCannes
Score7125
Tourist attractions within 2 km687
Park area within 2 km128 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 19 points.19
AthensCannes
Score7556
Notable places within 2 km29195
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 12 points.12
AthensCannes
Score7462
Price level global55.873.7
Daily budget€125€160
Year-round weather. Athens and Cannes are level on 74.
AthensCannes
Score7474
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months73
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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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensCannes
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
HeraklionHER
1 h 0 m
€84-111
ATH · 20 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
ThiraJTR
55 m
€94-103
ATH · 20 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAthensCannes
Official languageGreekFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m0 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensCannes
City population643,45274,350
People per km²16,4993,793
Museums within 10 km8816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre8238
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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. 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.