VacationSelector

Cannes or Paphos?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

CannesPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 6 points.6
CannesPaphos
Score7379
Swim season months46
Beaches 10 km6827
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 6 points.6
CannesPaphos
Score5044
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1922
Museums & heritage. Cannes leads by 14 points.14
CannesPaphos
Score3622
Museums within 10 km318
Museums within 2 km of centre53
Share of museums within 2 km %1638
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
CannesPaphos
Score2830
Drinking venues within 4 km188224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8772
Nightclubs within 4 km1911
Nature & day trips. Cannes leads by 10 points.10
CannesPaphos
Score3323
Protected land share 50 km %172
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5333
Park area within 2 km13 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 17 points.17
CannesPaphos
Score2542
Tourist attractions within 2 km730
Park area within 2 km13 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 37 points.37
CannesPaphos
Score5619
Notable places within 2 km9512
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 8 points.8
CannesPaphos
Score6270
Price level global73.761.4
Daily budget€160€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 12 points.12
CannesPaphos
Score7486
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months38
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Paphos
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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 20 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
BristolBRS
2 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 8 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

MeasureCannesPaphos
Official languageFrenchTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m72 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesPaphos
City population74,35035,961
People per km²3,7931,987
Museums within 10 km164
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3836
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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.