VacationSelector

Bath or Cannes?

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

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Cannes
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BathCannes
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 65 points.65
BathCannes
Score873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km168
Coast distance29 km1 km
Water distance29 km1 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 4 points.4
BathCannes
Score4650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245473
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2619
Museums & heritage. Bath leads by 11 points.11
BathCannes
Score4736
Museums within 10 km2031
Museums within 2 km of centre145
Share of museums within 2 km %7016
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathCannes
Score3628
Drinking venues within 4 km320188
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240164
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7587
Nightclubs within 4 km1119
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 11 points.11
BathCannes
Score4433
Protected land share 50 km %2817
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2716
Land share of disc %9253
Park area within 2 km45 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 15 points.15
BathCannes
Score4025
Tourist attractions within 2 km147
Park area within 2 km45 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 24 points.24
BathCannes
Score3256
Notable places within 2 km2595
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 8 points.8
BathCannes
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 19 points.19
BathCannes
Score5574
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months03
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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathCannes
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€193-242
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 20 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 132 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

MeasureBathCannes
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m0 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathCannes
City population94,09274,350
People per km²3,2453,793
Museums within 10 km1716
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3838
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). 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.