VacationSelector

Cannes or Glasgow?

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.

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CannesGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 37 points.37
CannesGlasgow
Score7336
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km683
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 13 points.13
CannesGlasgow
Score5063
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1929
Museums & heritage. Glasgow leads by 9 points.9
CannesGlasgow
Score3645
Museums within 10 km3132
Museums within 2 km of centre513
Share of museums within 2 km %1641
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 35 points.35
CannesGlasgow
Score2863
Drinking venues within 4 km1881,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8761
Nightclubs within 4 km1973
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 5 points.5
CannesGlasgow
Score3338
Protected land share 50 km %1716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1612
Land share of disc %5391
Park area within 2 km13 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Glasgow leads by 16 points.16
CannesGlasgow
Score2541
Tourist attractions within 2 km713
Park area within 2 km13 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 3 points.3
CannesGlasgow
Score5653
Notable places within 2 km9580
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 8 points.8
CannesGlasgow
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 31 points.31
CannesGlasgow
Score7443
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesGlasgow
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 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

MeasureCannesGlasgow
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation0 m21 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesGlasgow
City population74,350626,410
People per km²3,793190
Museums within 10 km1629
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3854
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. 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.