VacationSelector

Cannes or Mexico City?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

CannesMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesMexico City
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km684
Coast distance1 km247 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
CannesMexico City
Score5066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4732,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1915
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 43 points.43
CannesMexico City
Score3679
Museums within 10 km31138
Museums within 2 km of centre565
Share of museums within 2 km %1647
Unesco sites within 50 km26
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 50 points.50
CannesMexico City
Score2878
Drinking venues within 4 km1882,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8743
Nightclubs within 4 km19198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 30 points.30
CannesMexico City
Score3363
Protected land share 50 km %1730
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 25 points.25
CannesMexico City
Score2550
Tourist attractions within 2 km723
Park area within 2 km13 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 2 points.2
CannesMexico City
Score5654
Notable places within 2 km9588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
CannesMexico City
Score6276
Price level global73.754.2
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
CannesMexico City
Score7490
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months36
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesMexico City
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
14 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 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

MeasureCannesMexico City
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2,240 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesMexico City
City population74,3509,209,944
People per km²3,7936,202
Museums within 10 km16108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Distinct cuisines in the centre3850
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.