VacationSelector

Cannes or New York?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
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.

CannesNew York
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 9 points.9
CannesNew York
Score7364
Swim season months43
Beaches 10 km6817
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 45 points.45
CannesNew York
Score5095
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4736,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1938
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 24 points.24
CannesNew York
Score3660
Museums within 10 km31119
Museums within 2 km of centre531
Share of museums within 2 km %1626
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. New York leads by 61 points.61
CannesNew York
Score2889
Drinking venues within 4 km1884,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1642,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8748
Nightclubs within 4 km19192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 6 points.6
CannesNew York
Score3339
Protected land share 50 km %174
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5369
Park area within 2 km13 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 47 points.47
CannesNew York
Score2572
Tourist attractions within 2 km737
Park area within 2 km13 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. New York leads by 18 points.18
CannesNew York
Score5674
Notable places within 2 km95268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 19 points.19
CannesNew York
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 16 points.16
CannesNew York
Score7458
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
New York
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
New York
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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesNew York
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 20 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureCannesNew York
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m25 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesNew York
City population74,3508,804,190
People per km²3,7937,256
Museums within 10 km16157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre38132
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. 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.