VacationSelector

Cannes or Heidelberg?

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 beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

CannesHeidelberg
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesHeidelberg
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km686
Coast distance1 km406 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 3 points.3
CannesHeidelberg
Score5047
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1926
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 23 points.23
CannesHeidelberg
Score3659
Museums within 10 km3154
Museums within 2 km of centre523
Share of museums within 2 km %1643
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Cannes leads by 1 points.1
CannesHeidelberg
Score2827
Drinking venues within 4 km188201
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8784
Nightclubs within 4 km198
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 41 points.41
CannesHeidelberg
Score3374
Protected land share 50 km %1752
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1622
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Heidelberg leads by 18 points.18
CannesHeidelberg
Score2543
Tourist attractions within 2 km729
Park area within 2 km13 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 20 points.20
CannesHeidelberg
Score5636
Notable places within 2 km9531
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 2 points.2
CannesHeidelberg
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 13 points.13
CannesHeidelberg
Score7461
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C5.2 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm45 mm to 80 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesHeidelberg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
1 h 50 m
€121-146
FRA · 69 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
10 h 45 m
€490-632
1 stop
FRA · 69 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

MeasureCannesHeidelberg
Official languageFrenchGerman
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 m114 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesHeidelberg
City population74,350162,960
People per km²3,7931,496
Museums within 10 km1617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre3845
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.