VacationSelector

Cannes or Santiago?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Santiago
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CannesSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesSantiago
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km680
Coast distance1 km89 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 22 points.22
CannesSantiago
Score5072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4731,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1932
Museums & heritage. Santiago leads by 9 points.9
CannesSantiago
Score3645
Museums within 10 km3187
Museums within 2 km of centre530
Share of museums within 2 km %1634
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 33 points.33
CannesSantiago
Score2861
Drinking venues within 4 km188912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8759
Nightclubs within 4 km19112
Nature & day trips. Santiago leads by 19 points.19
CannesSantiago
Score3352
Protected land share 50 km %1717
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Santiago leads by 24 points.24
CannesSantiago
Score2549
Tourist attractions within 2 km712
Park area within 2 km13 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 8 points.8
CannesSantiago
Score5648
Notable places within 2 km9562
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 19 points.19
CannesSantiago
Score6281
Price level global73.746.2
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 11 points.11
CannesSantiago
Score7485
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm0 mm to 87 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
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Santiago
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesSantiago
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
13 h 45 m
€774-838
2 stops
SCL · 14 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 20 km
13 h 15 m
€799-1378
1 stop
SCL · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
16 h 5 m
€960-1123
SCL · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 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

MeasureCannesSantiago
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation0 m575 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSantiago
City population74,3506,257,516
People per km²3,7937,468
Museums within 10 km1654
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3864
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. 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.