VacationSelector

Cannes or Limassol?

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 sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather 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.

CannesLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 6 points.6
CannesLimassol
Score7379
Swim season months46
Beaches 10 km6827
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 7 points.7
CannesLimassol
Score5043
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1919
Museums & heritage. Limassol leads by 8 points.8
CannesLimassol
Score3644
Museums within 10 km3117
Museums within 2 km of centre510
Share of museums within 2 km %1659
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 11 points.11
CannesLimassol
Score2839
Drinking venues within 4 km188340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8775
Nightclubs within 4 km1920
Nature & day trips. Cannes leads by 11 points.11
CannesLimassol
Score3322
Protected land share 50 km %172
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5349
Park area within 2 km13 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Cannes leads by 9 points.9
CannesLimassol
Score2516
Tourist attractions within 2 km73
Park area within 2 km13 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 42 points.42
CannesLimassol
Score5614
Notable places within 2 km959
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 8 points.8
CannesLimassol
Score6270
Price level global73.761.4
Daily budget€160€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 11 points.11
CannesLimassol
Score7485
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months38
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 20 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BristolBRS
2 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 51 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

MeasureCannesLimassol
Official languageFrenchTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesLimassol
City population74,350107,970
People per km²3,7932,405
Museums within 10 km162
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre3828
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.