VacationSelector

Cannes or Ghent?

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, 1 point apart

Cannes
49
match

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

Ghent
50
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.

CannesGhent
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 47 points.47
CannesGhent
Score7326
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km688
Coast distance1 km32 km
Water distance1 km32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 20 points.20
CannesGhent
Score5070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1949
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 22 points.22
CannesGhent
Score3658
Museums within 10 km3124
Museums within 2 km of centre520
Share of museums within 2 km %1683
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 21 points.21
CannesGhent
Score2849
Drinking venues within 4 km188570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8778
Nightclubs within 4 km1926
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 1 points.1
CannesGhent
Score3334
Protected land share 50 km %177
Landscape blanket share 50 km %164
Land share of disc %5387
Park area within 2 km13 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 25 points.25
CannesGhent
Score2550
Tourist attractions within 2 km719
Park area within 2 km13 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 10 points.10
CannesGhent
Score5646
Notable places within 2 km9555
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 2 points.2
CannesGhent
Score6260
Price level global73.776.2
Daily budget€160€180
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 18 points.18
CannesGhent
Score7456
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months31
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ghent
9
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
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesGhent
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 20 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 56 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureCannesGhent
Official languageFrenchFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m12 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesGhent
City population74,350272,657
People per km²3,7931,728
Museums within 10 km1630
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre3883
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.