VacationSelector

Cannes or Los Angeles?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

CannesLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 44 points.44
CannesLos Angeles
Score7329
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km680
Coast distance1 km
Water distance1 km
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 16 points.16
CannesLos Angeles
Score5066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4731,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1922
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 13 points.13
CannesLos Angeles
Score3649
Museums within 10 km3169
Museums within 2 km of centre523
Share of museums within 2 km %1633
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
CannesLos Angeles
Score2854
Drinking venues within 4 km188660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8765
Nightclubs within 4 km1964
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
CannesLos Angeles
Score3362
Protected land share 50 km %1726
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5380
Park area within 2 km13 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Los Angeles leads by 8 points.8
CannesLos Angeles
Score2533
Tourist attractions within 2 km711
Park area within 2 km13 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 2 points.2
CannesLos Angeles
Score5654
Notable places within 2 km9588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 19 points.19
CannesLos Angeles
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 13 points.13
CannesLos Angeles
Score7487
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm0 mm to 76 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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Los Angeles
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). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesLos Angeles
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
5 h 0 m
€196-293
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
12 h 0 m
€570-646
LAX · 19 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

MeasureCannesLos Angeles
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m106 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesLos Angeles
City population74,3503,898,747
People per km²3,7932,994
Museums within 10 km1638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3846
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. 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.