VacationSelector

Cannes or Cardiff?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cannes
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CannesCardiff
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 27 points.27
CannesCardiff
Score7346
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km688
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 10 points.10
CannesCardiff
Score5060
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473541
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1932
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 3 points.3
CannesCardiff
Score3639
Museums within 10 km3161
Museums within 2 km of centre56
Share of museums within 2 km %1610
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 20 points.20
CannesCardiff
Score2848
Drinking venues within 4 km188536
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164395
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8774
Nightclubs within 4 km1935
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 17 points.17
CannesCardiff
Score3350
Protected land share 50 km %1718
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1615
Land share of disc %5368
Park area within 2 km13 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Cardiff leads by 7 points.7
CannesCardiff
Score2532
Tourist attractions within 2 km74
Park area within 2 km13 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 11 points.11
CannesCardiff
Score5645
Notable places within 2 km9551
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 8 points.8
CannesCardiff
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 20 points.20
CannesCardiff
Score7454
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C7.7 °C to 20.2 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm49 mm to 87 mm
Dry months30
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
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesCardiff
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
Puerto del RosarioFUE
3 h 30 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
Las PalmasLPA
3 h 40 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 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

MeasureCannesCardiff
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation0 m41 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesCardiff
City population74,350383,536
People per km²3,7932,734
Museums within 10 km169
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3855
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. 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. 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.