VacationSelector

Cannes or Split?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cannes
49
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Split
51
match

Wins on value for money 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.

CannesSplit
Beaches & swimming. Cannes and Split are level on 73.
CannesSplit
Score7373
Swim season months44
Beaches 10 km6887
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 12 points.12
CannesSplit
Score5038
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1915
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 16 points.16
CannesSplit
Score3652
Museums within 10 km3118
Museums within 2 km of centre516
Share of museums within 2 km %1689
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Split leads by 13 points.13
CannesSplit
Score2841
Drinking venues within 4 km188379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8769
Nightclubs within 4 km1923
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 5 points.5
CannesSplit
Score3338
Protected land share 50 km %179
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5362
Park area within 2 km13 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Split leads by 1 points.1
CannesSplit
Score2526
Tourist attractions within 2 km79
Park area within 2 km13 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 14 points.14
CannesSplit
Score5642
Notable places within 2 km9543
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 18 points.18
CannesSplit
Score6280
Price level global73.748.5
Daily budget€160€138
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 5 points.5
CannesSplit
Score7469
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months32
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Split
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCannesSplit
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 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

MeasureCannesSplit
Official languageFrenchCroatian
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
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSplit
City population74,350160,577
People per km²3,793
Museums within 10 km1611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre3831
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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.