VacationSelector

Cannes or Malaga?

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 sights concentration and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
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.

CannesMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 7 points.7
CannesMalaga
Score7366
Swim season months43
Beaches 10 km6821
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 19 points.19
CannesMalaga
Score5069
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4731,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1934
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 17 points.17
CannesMalaga
Score3653
Museums within 10 km3140
Museums within 2 km of centre535
Share of museums within 2 km %1688
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 26 points.26
CannesMalaga
Score2854
Drinking venues within 4 km188715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8768
Nightclubs within 4 km1945
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 10 points.10
CannesMalaga
Score3343
Protected land share 50 km %177
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5363
Park area within 2 km13 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 28 points.28
CannesMalaga
Score2553
Tourist attractions within 2 km733
Park area within 2 km13 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 19 points.19
CannesMalaga
Score5637
Notable places within 2 km9533
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 9 points.9
CannesMalaga
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 8 points.8
CannesMalaga
Score7482
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months35
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesMalaga
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 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

MeasureCannesMalaga
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m18 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMalaga
City population74,350599,063
People per km²3,7931,517
Museums within 10 km1632
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3865
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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. 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.