VacationSelector

Cannes or Lisbon?

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 with your weighting.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
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.

CannesLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 16 points.16
CannesLisbon
Score7357
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km6824
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 30 points.30
CannesLisbon
Score5080
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4732,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1931
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 34 points.34
CannesLisbon
Score3670
Museums within 10 km31124
Museums within 2 km of centre554
Share of museums within 2 km %1644
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 37 points.37
CannesLisbon
Score2865
Drinking venues within 4 km1881,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8778
Nightclubs within 4 km1965
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 23 points.23
CannesLisbon
Score3356
Protected land share 50 km %1711
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5354
Park area within 2 km13 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 44 points.44
CannesLisbon
Score2569
Tourist attractions within 2 km782
Park area within 2 km13 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 10 points.10
CannesLisbon
Score5666
Notable places within 2 km95169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
CannesLisbon
Score6274
Price level global73.755.9
Daily budget€160€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
CannesLisbon
Score7478
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months34
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Lisbon
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
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesLisbon
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€171-195
LIS · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€120-145
LIS · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 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

MeasureCannesLisbon
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m100 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesLisbon
City population74,350545,796
People per km²3,7935,453
Museums within 10 km1678
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre38106
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.