VacationSelector

Cannes or Copenhagen?

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.

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families 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.

CannesCopenhagen
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 19 points.19
CannesCopenhagen
Score7354
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km6817
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 23 points.23
CannesCopenhagen
Score5073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4731,183
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1937
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 39 points.39
CannesCopenhagen
Score3675
Museums within 10 km3183
Museums within 2 km of centre551
Share of museums within 2 km %1661
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 39 points.39
CannesCopenhagen
Score2867
Drinking venues within 4 km1881,384
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164806
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8758
Nightclubs within 4 km1964
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 17 points.17
CannesCopenhagen
Score3350
Protected land share 50 km %175
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5339
Park area within 2 km13 hectares138 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 46 points.46
CannesCopenhagen
Score2571
Tourist attractions within 2 km754
Park area within 2 km13 hectares138 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 18 points.18
CannesCopenhagen
Score5674
Notable places within 2 km95273
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 10 points.10
CannesCopenhagen
Score6252
Price level global73.787.8
Daily budget€160€214
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 19 points.19
CannesCopenhagen
Score7455
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C3.6 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm28 mm to 74 mm
Dry months33
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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Copenhagen
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesCopenhagen
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 50 m
€165-218
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 30 m
€127-182
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€192-225
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
6 h 20 m
€338-366
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 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

MeasureCannesCopenhagen
Official languageFrenchDanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Danish Krone (DKK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCEFK230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m14 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesCopenhagen
City population74,350667,099
People per km²3,7937,339
Museums within 10 km1672
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre3882
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.