VacationSelector

Cannes or London?

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.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

CannesLondon
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesLondon
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km6847
Coast distance1 km43 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. London leads by 38 points.38
CannesLondon
Score5088
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4733,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1940
Museums & heritage. London leads by 36 points.36
CannesLondon
Score3672
Museums within 10 km31148
Museums within 2 km of centre549
Share of museums within 2 km %1633
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. London leads by 67 points.67
CannesLondon
Score2895
Drinking venues within 4 km1885,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1642,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8746
Nightclubs within 4 km19312
Nature & day trips. London leads by 7 points.7
CannesLondon
Score3340
Protected land share 50 km %1716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1614
Land share of disc %5397
Park area within 2 km13 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 50 points.50
CannesLondon
Score2575
Tourist attractions within 2 km785
Park area within 2 km13 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. London leads by 33 points.33
CannesLondon
Score5689
Notable places within 2 km95649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 8 points.8
CannesLondon
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 11 points.11
CannesLondon
Score7463
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months31
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
London
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesLondon
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€184-208
LHR · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 0 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 23 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

MeasureCannesLondon
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation0 m4 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesLondon
City population74,3508,799,728
People per km²3,7935,598
Museums within 10 km16215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre38116
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.