VacationSelector

Cannes or Kuala Lumpur?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Kuala Lumpur
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

CannesKuala Lumpur
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 33 points.33
CannesKuala Lumpur
Score7340
Swim season months412
Beaches 10 km680
Coast distance1 km38 km
Water distance1 km36 km
Places to eat. Kuala Lumpur leads by 28 points.28
CannesKuala Lumpur
Score5078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4732,358
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1928
Museums & heritage. Kuala Lumpur leads by 15 points.15
CannesKuala Lumpur
Score3651
Museums within 10 km3141
Museums within 2 km of centre526
Share of museums within 2 km %1663
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Kuala Lumpur leads by 39 points.39
CannesKuala Lumpur
Score2867
Drinking venues within 4 km1881,308
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164735
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8756
Nightclubs within 4 km19126
Nature & day trips. Kuala Lumpur leads by 36 points.36
CannesKuala Lumpur
Score3369
Protected land share 50 km %1728
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5397
Park area within 2 km13 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Kuala Lumpur leads by 35 points.35
CannesKuala Lumpur
Score2560
Tourist attractions within 2 km726
Park area within 2 km13 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 5 points.5
CannesKuala Lumpur
Score5651
Notable places within 2 km9575
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kuala Lumpur leads by 30 points.30
CannesKuala Lumpur
Score6292
Price level global73.730.6
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 22 points.22
CannesKuala Lumpur
Score7452
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C31.9 °C to 33.7 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm145 mm to 360 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
Kuala Lumpur
33
33
34
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
32
32
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Kuala Lumpur
29
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Kuala Lumpur
227
197
270
296
232
145
169
178
215
284
360
281
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kuala Lumpur
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Kuala Lumpur
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesKuala Lumpur
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
13 h 10 m
€471-602
KUL · 45 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
5 h 10 m
€203-227
KUL · 45 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
6 h 5 m
€251-273
KUL · 45 km
JeddahJED
5 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
9 h 0 m
€422-558
KUL · 45 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
DohaDOH
5 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
KUL · 45 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

MeasureCannesKuala Lumpur
Official languageFrenchMalay
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation0 m50 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesKuala Lumpur
City population74,3509,000,280
People per km²3,79336,932
Museums within 10 km1625
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3869
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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.