VacationSelector

Bucharest or Cannes?

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

Your match

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Cannes
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BucharestCannes
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
BucharestCannes
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km368
Coast distance198 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestCannes
Score6750
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667473
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4119
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 13 points.13
BucharestCannes
Score4936
Museums within 10 km7331
Museums within 2 km of centre405
Share of museums within 2 km %5516
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 34 points.34
BucharestCannes
Score6228
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017188
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541164
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5387
Nightclubs within 4 km8019
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 3 points.3
BucharestCannes
Score3633
Protected land share 50 km %417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km133 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 43 points.43
BucharestCannes
Score6825
Tourist attractions within 2 km457
Park area within 2 km133 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 5 points.5
BucharestCannes
Score6156
Notable places within 2 km13095
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 23 points.23
BucharestCannes
Score8562
Price level global40.973.7
Daily budget€99€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 11 points.11
BucharestCannes
Score6374
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months13
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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestCannes
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 20 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 40 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureBucharestCannes
Official languageRomanianFrench
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)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
Elevation70 m0 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestCannes
City population1,716,96174,350
People per km²7,5973,793
Museums within 10 km4116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6838
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.