VacationSelector

Cannes or Helsinki?

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.

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

CannesHelsinki
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 13 points.13
CannesHelsinki
Score7360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km68157
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 21 points.21
CannesHelsinki
Score5071
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4731,005
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1938
Museums & heritage. Helsinki leads by 13 points.13
CannesHelsinki
Score3649
Museums within 10 km3157
Museums within 2 km of centre523
Share of museums within 2 km %1640
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 28 points.28
CannesHelsinki
Score2856
Drinking venues within 4 km188807
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164607
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8775
Nightclubs within 4 km1940
Nature & day trips. Helsinki leads by 9 points.9
CannesHelsinki
Score3342
Protected land share 50 km %173
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5353
Park area within 2 km13 hectares185 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 33 points.33
CannesHelsinki
Score2558
Tourist attractions within 2 km720
Park area within 2 km13 hectares185 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 17 points.17
CannesHelsinki
Score5673
Notable places within 2 km95257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 6 points.6
CannesHelsinki
Score6256
Price level global73.781.6
Daily budget€160€184
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 26 points.26
CannesHelsinki
Score7448
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm32 mm to 84 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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesHelsinki
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
DohaDOH
5 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 16 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

MeasureCannesHelsinki
Official languageFrenchFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m17 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesHelsinki
City population74,350694,392
People per km²3,7933,239
Museums within 10 km1674
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3878
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. 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.