VacationSelector

Calgary or Cannes?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Cannes
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

CalgaryCannes
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CalgaryCannes
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km468
Coast distance649 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 16 points.16
CalgaryCannes
Score6650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749473
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3619
Museums & heritage. Cannes leads by 27 points.27
CalgaryCannes
Score936
Museums within 10 km831
Museums within 2 km of centre35
Share of museums within 2 km %3816
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Calgary leads by 16 points.16
CalgaryCannes
Score4428
Drinking venues within 4 km465188
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343164
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7487
Nightclubs within 4 km1919
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 3 points.3
CalgaryCannes
Score3633
Protected land share 50 km %417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km142 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 16 points.16
CalgaryCannes
Score4125
Tourist attractions within 2 km37
Park area within 2 km142 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 17 points.17
CalgaryCannes
Score3956
Notable places within 2 km3795
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 8 points.8
CalgaryCannes
Score5462
Price level global8473.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 17 points.17
CalgaryCannes
Score5774
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months83
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
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
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryCannes
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 35 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€193-242
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCalgaryCannes
Official languageFrench, EnglishFrench
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m0 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryCannes
City population1,306,78474,350
People per km²1,5833,793
Museums within 10 km1316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6738
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). 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. 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.