VacationSelector

Cannes or Seoul?

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.

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
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.

CannesSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 58 points.58
CannesSeoul
Score7315
Swim season months42
Beaches 10 km681
Coast distance1 km28 km
Water distance1 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 35 points.35
CannesSeoul
Score5085
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4733,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1932
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 47 points.47
CannesSeoul
Score3683
Museums within 10 km31203
Museums within 2 km of centre590
Share of museums within 2 km %1644
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 52 points.52
CannesSeoul
Score2880
Drinking venues within 4 km1883,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1641,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8750
Nightclubs within 4 km1929
Nature & day trips. Cannes leads by 1 points.1
CannesSeoul
Score3332
Protected land share 50 km %171
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5395
Park area within 2 km13 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 54 points.54
CannesSeoul
Score2579
Tourist attractions within 2 km762
Park area within 2 km13 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km38
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 3 points.3
CannesSeoul
Score5659
Notable places within 2 km95118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 10 points.10
CannesSeoul
Score6272
Price level global73.759.4
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 13 points.13
CannesSeoul
Score7461
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm18 mm to 422 mm
Dry months34
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
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesSeoul
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
1 h 40 m
€197-199
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
10 h 0 m
€493-591
ICN · 49 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 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

MeasureCannesSeoul
Official languageFrenchKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation0 m38 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSeoul
City population74,3509,668,465
People per km²3,79315,973
Museums within 10 km1680
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre38156
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months2 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.