VacationSelector

Cannes or Rotterdam?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families 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.

CannesRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 36 points.36
CannesRotterdam
Score7337
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km6822
Coast distance1 km24 km
Water distance1 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 22 points.22
CannesRotterdam
Score5072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1946
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 24 points.24
CannesRotterdam
Score3660
Museums within 10 km3141
Museums within 2 km of centre520
Share of museums within 2 km %1649
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 21 points.21
CannesRotterdam
Score2849
Drinking venues within 4 km188542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8770
Nightclubs within 4 km1940
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 9 points.9
CannesRotterdam
Score3342
Protected land share 50 km %1710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5379
Park area within 2 km13 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
CannesRotterdam
Score2562
Tourist attractions within 2 km727
Park area within 2 km13 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km38
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 5 points.5
CannesRotterdam
Score5651
Notable places within 2 km9574
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 4 points.4
CannesRotterdam
Score6258
Price level global73.779.2
Daily budget€160€181
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 18 points.18
CannesRotterdam
Score7456
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureCannesRotterdam
Official languageFrenchDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesRotterdam
City population74,350664,311
People per km²3,7932,080
Museums within 10 km1640
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre3877
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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.