VacationSelector

Cannes or Ottawa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Cannes
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Ottawa
43
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.

CannesOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesOttawa
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km689
Coast distance1 km423 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 14 points.14
CannesOttawa
Score5064
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1934
Museums & heritage. Cannes leads by 4 points.4
CannesOttawa
Score3632
Museums within 10 km3115
Museums within 2 km of centre58
Share of museums within 2 km %1653
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 16 points.16
CannesOttawa
Score2844
Drinking venues within 4 km188432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8770
Nightclubs within 4 km1935
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 8 points.8
CannesOttawa
Score3341
Protected land share 50 km %178
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 21 points.21
CannesOttawa
Score2546
Tourist attractions within 2 km711
Park area within 2 km13 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 6 points.6
CannesOttawa
Score5650
Notable places within 2 km9571
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 8 points.8
CannesOttawa
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 21 points.21
CannesOttawa
Score7453
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Ottawa
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Ottawa
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). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesOttawa
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 50 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
QuebecYQB
7 h 30 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 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

MeasureCannesOttawa
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m70 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesOttawa
City population74,3501,017,449
People per km²3,793366
Museums within 10 km1620
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3862
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.