VacationSelector

Cannes or Izmir?

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.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money 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.

CannesIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 18 points.18
CannesIzmir
Score7355
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km684
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 1 points.1
CannesIzmir
Score5049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1912
Museums & heritage. Izmir leads by 7 points.7
CannesIzmir
Score3643
Museums within 10 km3147
Museums within 2 km of centre527
Share of museums within 2 km %1657
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 34 points.34
CannesIzmir
Score2862
Drinking venues within 4 km1881,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8768
Nightclubs within 4 km1970
Nature & day trips. Cannes leads by 4 points.4
CannesIzmir
Score3329
Protected land share 50 km %174
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5384
Park area within 2 km13 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Izmir leads by 10 points.10
CannesIzmir
Score2535
Tourist attractions within 2 km76
Park area within 2 km13 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 16 points.16
CannesIzmir
Score5640
Notable places within 2 km9539
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 27 points.27
CannesIzmir
Score6289
Price level global73.735.2
Daily budget€160€100
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 2 points.2
CannesIzmir
Score7472
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months35
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BerlinBER
1 h 55 m
€116-156
NCE · 20 km
2 h 55 m
€177-214
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 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

MeasureCannesIzmir
Official languageFrenchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesIzmir
City population74,3504,493,242
People per km²3,7934,760
Museums within 10 km1629
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3820
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. 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.