VacationSelector

Cannes or Sao Paulo?

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.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
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.

CannesSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesSao Paulo
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km680
Coast distance1 km51 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 23 points.23
CannesSao Paulo
Score5073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4731,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1927
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 7 points.7
CannesSao Paulo
Score3643
Museums within 10 km3182
Museums within 2 km of centre526
Share of museums within 2 km %1632
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 44 points.44
CannesSao Paulo
Score2872
Drinking venues within 4 km1881,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8751
Nightclubs within 4 km19118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.18
CannesSao Paulo
Score3351
Protected land share 50 km %1726
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1615
Land share of disc %5395
Park area within 2 km13 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 30 points.30
CannesSao Paulo
Score2555
Tourist attractions within 2 km738
Park area within 2 km13 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 6 points.6
CannesSao Paulo
Score5650
Notable places within 2 km9568
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
CannesSao Paulo
Score6281
Price level global73.746.1
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 9 points.9
CannesSao Paulo
Score7483
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months31
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
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesSao Paulo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 20 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 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

MeasureCannesSao Paulo
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation0 m760 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSao Paulo
City population74,35011,451,999
People per km²3,7937,519
Museums within 10 km1690
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3859
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.