VacationSelector

Cannes or Naples?

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 places to eat and year-round weather with your weighting.

Naples
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

CannesNaples
Beaches & swimming. Naples leads by 3 points.3
CannesNaples
Score7376
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km6829
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 4 points.4
CannesNaples
Score5046
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4731,244
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km197
Museums & heritage. Naples leads by 42 points.42
CannesNaples
Score3678
Museums within 10 km3184
Museums within 2 km of centre568
Share of museums within 2 km %1681
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Naples leads by 38 points.38
CannesNaples
Score2866
Drinking venues within 4 km1881,389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164964
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8769
Nightclubs within 4 km1940
Nature & day trips. Naples leads by 4 points.4
CannesNaples
Score3337
Protected land share 50 km %177
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5356
Park area within 2 km13 hectares41 hectares
Good for families. Naples leads by 16 points.16
CannesNaples
Score2541
Tourist attractions within 2 km711
Park area within 2 km13 hectares41 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Naples leads by 22 points.22
CannesNaples
Score5678
Notable places within 2 km95351
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Naples leads by 6 points.6
CannesNaples
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 1 points.1
CannesNaples
Score7473
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months33
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
Naples
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Naples
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Naples
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Naples
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Naples
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Naples: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (28.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesNaples
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
NAP · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 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

MeasureCannesNaples
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m17 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesNaples
City population74,350913,462
People per km²3,7937,676
Museums within 10 km1665
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre3831
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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.