VacationSelector

Cannes or Melbourne?

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.

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
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.

CannesMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 18 points.18
CannesMelbourne
Score7355
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km6819
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 25 points.25
CannesMelbourne
Score5075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4731,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1929
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 13 points.13
CannesMelbourne
Score3649
Museums within 10 km3142
Museums within 2 km of centre524
Share of museums within 2 km %1657
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 46 points.46
CannesMelbourne
Score2874
Drinking venues within 4 km1881,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1641,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8762
Nightclubs within 4 km19124
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 10 points.10
CannesMelbourne
Score3343
Protected land share 50 km %176
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5381
Park area within 2 km13 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 35 points.35
CannesMelbourne
Score2560
Tourist attractions within 2 km726
Park area within 2 km13 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 1 points.1
CannesMelbourne
Score5657
Notable places within 2 km95103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 12 points.12
CannesMelbourne
Score6250
Price level global73.790.2
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 2 points.2
CannesMelbourne
Score7476
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm45 mm to 69 mm
Dry months30
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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesMelbourne
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
DohaDOH
5 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
10 h 5 m
€542-1650
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
Abu DhabiAUH
6 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
14 h 20 m
no fares
MEL · 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

MeasureCannesMelbourne
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation0 m31 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMelbourne
City population74,3505,350,705
People per km²3,793535
Museums within 10 km1642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3886
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.