VacationSelector

Cannes or Granada?

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 beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Granada
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and 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.

CannesGranada
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesGranada
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km680
Coast distance1 km48 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Granada leads by 17 points.17
CannesGranada
Score5067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473872
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1934
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 12 points.12
CannesGranada
Score3648
Museums within 10 km3128
Museums within 2 km of centre526
Share of museums within 2 km %1693
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Granada leads by 24 points.24
CannesGranada
Score2852
Drinking venues within 4 km188637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164494
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8778
Nightclubs within 4 km1946
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 30 points.30
CannesGranada
Score3363
Protected land share 50 km %1727
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5396
Park area within 2 km13 hectares46 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 31 points.31
CannesGranada
Score2556
Tourist attractions within 2 km760
Park area within 2 km13 hectares46 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 12 points.12
CannesGranada
Score5644
Notable places within 2 km9550
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 9 points.9
CannesGranada
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Cannes and Granada are level on 74.
CannesGranada
Score7474
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C13.1 °C to 34.8 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm0 mm to 51 mm
Dry months37
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Granada
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesGranada
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 97 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 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

MeasureCannesGranada
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m693 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesGranada
City population74,350233,975
People per km²3,7932,659
Museums within 10 km1619
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3862
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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.