VacationSelector

Cannes or Gdansk?

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 year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Gdansk
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on good for families 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.

CannesGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 18 points.18
CannesGdansk
Score7355
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km6820
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Gdansk leads by 2 points.2
CannesGdansk
Score5052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1928
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 21 points.21
CannesGdansk
Score3657
Museums within 10 km3143
Museums within 2 km of centre528
Share of museums within 2 km %1665
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
CannesGdansk
Score2836
Drinking venues within 4 km188269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8775
Nightclubs within 4 km1930
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 12 points.12
CannesGdansk
Score3345
Protected land share 50 km %1712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %163
Land share of disc %5370
Park area within 2 km13 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 50 points.50
CannesGdansk
Score2575
Tourist attractions within 2 km7108
Park area within 2 km13 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 4 points.4
CannesGdansk
Score5652
Notable places within 2 km9576
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 17 points.17
CannesGdansk
Score6279
Price level global73.749
Daily budget€160€133
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 22 points.22
CannesGdansk
Score7452
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm37 mm to 87 mm
Dry months33
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
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesGdansk
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 50 m
€165-218
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 20 m
€107-192
NCE · 20 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 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

MeasureCannesGdansk
Official languageFrenchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m11 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesGdansk
City population74,350487,834
People per km²3,793714
Museums within 10 km1637
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3848
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. 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.