VacationSelector

Cannes or Faro?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cannes
49
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Faro
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money 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.

CannesFaro
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 12 points.12
CannesFaro
Score7361
Swim season months43
Beaches 10 km6813
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 6 points.6
CannesFaro
Score5044
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1922
Museums & heritage. Cannes leads by 14 points.14
CannesFaro
Score3622
Museums within 10 km319
Museums within 2 km of centre58
Share of museums within 2 km %1689
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Cannes leads by 7 points.7
CannesFaro
Score2821
Drinking venues within 4 km188143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8786
Nightclubs within 4 km198
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 24 points.24
CannesFaro
Score3357
Protected land share 50 km %1711
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5342
Park area within 2 km13 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 11 points.11
CannesFaro
Score2536
Tourist attractions within 2 km710
Park area within 2 km13 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 34 points.34
CannesFaro
Score5622
Notable places within 2 km9514
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 12 points.12
CannesFaro
Score6274
Price level global73.755.9
Daily budget€160€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 9 points.9
CannesFaro
Score7483
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months36
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
BristolBRS
2 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureCannesFaro
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesFaro
City population74,35064,560
People per km²3,793319
Museums within 10 km162
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3834
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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.