VacationSelector

Cannes or Sofia?

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.

Sofia
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on value for money 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.

CannesSofia
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesSofia
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km680
Coast distance1 km214 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Sofia leads by 14 points.14
CannesSofia
Score5064
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1928
Museums & heritage. Sofia leads by 21 points.21
CannesSofia
Score3657
Museums within 10 km3151
Museums within 2 km of centre540
Share of museums within 2 km %1678
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 33 points.33
CannesSofia
Score2861
Drinking venues within 4 km188958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8763
Nightclubs within 4 km19102
Nature & day trips. Sofia leads by 18 points.18
CannesSofia
Score3351
Protected land share 50 km %1712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %164
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Sofia leads by 30 points.30
CannesSofia
Score2555
Tourist attractions within 2 km720
Park area within 2 km13 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Sofia leads by 1 points.1
CannesSofia
Score5657
Notable places within 2 km95104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 37 points.37
CannesSofia
Score6299
Price level global73.721.4
Daily budget€160€77
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 10 points.10
CannesSofia
Score7464
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm36 mm to 78 mm
Dry months33
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
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Sofia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sofia
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesSofia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€71-94
SOF · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 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

MeasureCannesSofia
Official languageFrenchBulgarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m560 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSofia
City population74,3501,213,134
People per km²3,7932,466
Museums within 10 km1642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3851
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.