VacationSelector

Cannes or Cologne?

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

Your match

Cannes
49
match

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

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips 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.

CannesCologne
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesCologne
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km6840
Coast distance1 km256 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 22 points.22
CannesCologne
Score5072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4731,142
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1935
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 24 points.24
CannesCologne
Score3660
Museums within 10 km3147
Museums within 2 km of centre527
Share of museums within 2 km %1657
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 36 points.36
CannesCologne
Score2864
Drinking venues within 4 km1881,107
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164727
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8766
Nightclubs within 4 km1990
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 38 points.38
CannesCologne
Score3371
Protected land share 50 km %1753
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1652
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares118 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 47 points.47
CannesCologne
Score2572
Tourist attractions within 2 km743
Park area within 2 km13 hectares118 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km36
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 3 points.3
CannesCologne
Score5653
Notable places within 2 km9581
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 2 points.2
CannesCologne
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 14 points.14
CannesCologne
Score7460
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C6.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Cologne
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesCologne
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
3 h 30 m
€204-239
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
CGN · 15 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

MeasureCannesCologne
Official languageFrenchGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m59 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesCologne
City population74,3501,024,621
People per km²3,7932,530
Museums within 10 km1640
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre3884
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. 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.