VacationSelector

Cannes or Dubrovnik?

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 nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
44
match

Wins on value for money 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.

CannesDubrovnik
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 4 points.4
CannesDubrovnik
Score7377
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km6843
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 12 points.12
CannesDubrovnik
Score5038
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473206
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1918
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 13 points.13
CannesDubrovnik
Score3649
Museums within 10 km3118
Museums within 2 km of centre517
Share of museums within 2 km %1694
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Cannes leads by 8 points.8
CannesDubrovnik
Score2820
Drinking venues within 4 km188128
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164110
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8786
Nightclubs within 4 km1913
Nature & day trips. Cannes leads by 28 points.28
CannesDubrovnik
Score335
Protected land share 50 km %174
Landscape blanket share 50 km %164
Land share of disc %5351
Park area within 2 km13 hectares6 hectares
Good for families. Cannes leads by 4 points.4
CannesDubrovnik
Score2521
Tourist attractions within 2 km712
Park area within 2 km13 hectares6 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 12 points.12
CannesDubrovnik
Score5644
Notable places within 2 km9548
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubrovnik leads by 18 points.18
CannesDubrovnik
Score6280
Price level global73.748.5
Daily budget€160€138
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 9 points.9
CannesDubrovnik
Score7465
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C11 °C to 29.1 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesDubrovnik
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€66-134
DBV · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
3 h 15 m
€135-178
2 stops
DBV · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€274-389
TIV · 57 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 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

MeasureCannesDubrovnik
Official languageFrenchCroatian
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 m10 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesDubrovnik
City population74,35041,562
People per km²3,793
Museums within 10 km167
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre3832
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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.