VacationSelector

Cannes or Cork?

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

Your match

Cannes
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Cork
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

CannesCork
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 45 points.45
CannesCork
Score7328
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km681
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Cannes and Cork are level on 50.
CannesCork
Score5050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473224
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1935
Museums & heritage. Cannes leads by 13 points.13
CannesCork
Score3623
Museums within 10 km3110
Museums within 2 km of centre58
Share of museums within 2 km %1680
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Cork leads by 10 points.10
CannesCork
Score2838
Drinking venues within 4 km188361
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8781
Nightclubs within 4 km199
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 19 points.19
CannesCork
Score3352
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5374
Park area within 2 km13 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Cork leads by 2 points.2
CannesCork
Score2527
Tourist attractions within 2 km77
Park area within 2 km13 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 34 points.34
CannesCork
Score5622
Notable places within 2 km9514
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 5 points.5
CannesCork
Score6257
Price level global73.780.2
Daily budget€160€187
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 25 points.25
CannesCork
Score7449
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C8.3 °C to 18.6 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm78 mm to 140 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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cork
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
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesCork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
FaroFAO
2 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 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

MeasureCannesCork
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesCork
City population74,350222,333
People per km²3,7935,961
Museums within 10 km165
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3849
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. 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.