VacationSelector

Cannes or Dubai?

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 sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Dubai
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

CannesDubai
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 27 points.27
CannesDubai
Score73100
Swim season months412
Beaches 10 km6852
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 16 points.16
CannesDubai
Score5066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4731,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1926
Museums & heritage. Dubai leads by 2 points.2
CannesDubai
Score3638
Museums within 10 km3126
Museums within 2 km of centre518
Share of museums within 2 km %1669
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 25 points.25
CannesDubai
Score2853
Drinking venues within 4 km188601
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8751
Nightclubs within 4 km1984
Nature & day trips. Cannes leads by 15 points.15
CannesDubai
Score3318
Protected land share 50 km %174
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5352
Park area within 2 km13 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 24 points.24
CannesDubai
Score2549
Tourist attractions within 2 km737
Park area within 2 km13 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 19 points.19
CannesDubai
Score5637
Notable places within 2 km9533
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 7 points.7
CannesDubai
Score6269
Price level global73.763.4
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 8 points.8
CannesDubai
Score7466
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C24.5 °C to 42.1 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm0 mm to 21 mm
Dry months312
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Dubai
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). Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesDubai
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
RiyadhRUH
5 h 30 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€106-123
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
6 h 0 m
€306-356
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 20 km
5 h 40 m
€283-323
DXB · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
DXB · 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

MeasureCannesDubai
Official languageFrenchArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)UAE Dirham (AED)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesDubai
City population74,3503,944,751
People per km²3,793
Museums within 10 km1614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3852
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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.