VacationSelector

Cannes or Galway?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Galway
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

CannesGalway
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 22 points.22
CannesGalway
Score7351
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km6813
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 13 points.13
CannesGalway
Score5037
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1920
Museums & heritage. Cannes leads by 16 points.16
CannesGalway
Score3620
Museums within 10 km315
Museums within 2 km of centre55
Share of museums within 2 km %16100
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Cannes leads by 2 points.2
CannesGalway
Score2826
Drinking venues within 4 km188185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8783
Nightclubs within 4 km198
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 22 points.22
CannesGalway
Score3355
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5385
Park area within 2 km13 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Cannes and Galway are level on 25.
CannesGalway
Score2525
Tourist attractions within 2 km75
Park area within 2 km13 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 34 points.34
CannesGalway
Score5622
Notable places within 2 km9514
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 5 points.5
CannesGalway
Score6257
Price level global73.780.2
Daily budget€160€187
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 20 points.20
CannesGalway
Score7454
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm63 mm to 113 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
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Galway
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
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
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). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 50 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 5 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 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

MeasureCannesGalway
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 m25 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesGalway
City population74,35083,456
People per km²3,7931,563
Museums within 10 km164
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3825
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.