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Cannes or Fort Lauderdale?

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 sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

CannesFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 11 points.11
CannesFort Lauderdale
Score7384
Swim season months412
Beaches 10 km687
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 5 points.5
CannesFort Lauderdale
Score5045
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1918
Museums & heritage. Cannes leads by 16 points.16
CannesFort Lauderdale
Score3620
Museums within 10 km3114
Museums within 2 km of centre56
Share of museums within 2 km %1643
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale leads by 6 points.6
CannesFort Lauderdale
Score2834
Drinking venues within 4 km188259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8756
Nightclubs within 4 km1918
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 48 points.48
CannesFort Lauderdale
Score3381
Protected land share 50 km %1720
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5351
Park area within 2 km13 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Cannes leads by 6 points.6
CannesFort Lauderdale
Score2519
Tourist attractions within 2 km72
Park area within 2 km13 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 56 points.56
CannesFort Lauderdale
Score560
Notable places within 2 km952
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 19 points.19
CannesFort Lauderdale
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 2 points.2
CannesFort Lauderdale
Score7476
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Fort Lauderdale
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
Fort Lauderdale
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). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesFort Lauderdale
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 20 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 25 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
2 h 35 m
€125-184
FLL · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 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

MeasureCannesFort Lauderdale
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m11 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesFort Lauderdale
City population74,350182,760
People per km²3,7931,829
Museums within 10 km166
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3825
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. 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.