VacationSelector

Cannes or Strasbourg?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Cannes if the sea is the point: 68 beaches nearby and four months warm enough to swim in, plus the warmer, sunnier year of the two.

Choose Strasbourg if you would rather eat and walk: about twice as many restaurants near the centre, a much wider range of kitchens, and far more parkland and protected countryside within reach.

Scoreboard

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

CannesStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesStrasbourg
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km689
Coast distance1 km398 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 17 points.17
CannesStrasbourg
Score5067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1936
Museums & heritage. Strasbourg leads by 5 points.5
CannesStrasbourg
Score3641
Museums within 10 km3123
Museums within 2 km of centre514
Share of museums within 2 km %1661
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Strasbourg leads by 8 points.8
CannesStrasbourg
Score2836
Drinking venues within 4 km188305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8787
Nightclubs within 4 km1917
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 21 points.21
CannesStrasbourg
Score3354
Protected land share 50 km %1737
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1635
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Strasbourg leads by 13 points.13
CannesStrasbourg
Score2538
Tourist attractions within 2 km79
Park area within 2 km13 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 2 points.2
CannesStrasbourg
Score5658
Notable places within 2 km95109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes and Strasbourg are level on 62.
CannesStrasbourg
Score6262
Price level global73.773.7
Daily budget€160€160
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 11 points.11
CannesStrasbourg
Score7463
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months33
0255075100

Where they differ

Cannes has the coast to itself here: 68 beaches nearby against 9 for Strasbourg, and four months when the sea sits at 21°C or more, which Strasbourg never reaches. It is also the warmer and far sunnier of the two across the year.

Strasbourg has about twice as many restaurants near the centre and a much wider range of kitchens. It is the greener base too: 37% of the land around it is protected against 17% around Cannes, with many times more park space near the centre.

Where they are alike

Both centres reward walking: each has about as many notable places within walking distance of the middle as the other.

Museums and nights out are close as well. Cannes has somewhat more museums and 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Strasbourg's 1, though Strasbourg's museums sit more tightly around the centre. Each has a similar number of nightclubs, and in both they are near the middle.

Which traveller are you?

A traveller whose holiday is built around swimming should take Cannes. It has 68 beaches nearby and four months of sea at 21°C or more, where Strasbourg has no comparable swimming season at all.

Anyone who plans days around eating and drinking is better served in Strasbourg, with about twice as many restaurants near the centre, a much wider range of kitchens, and about twice as many places to drink.

Families are split. Strasbourg has more attractions near the centre and far more park space for an afternoon outdoors; Cannes counters with 3 theme parks within reach against Strasbourg's 1.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value figure is a national price level, identical for both by construction, so the comparison between these two cities carries no information. The €160 daily budget beside it is one national estimate rather than a measurement of either place, so treat cost as something to check against your own bookings.

Cannes's coastal strength is concentrated: the sea reaches 21°C or more in only four months, which are the months everyone else travels too, and the wettest months follow straight after at 124-138mm. Its family standing also rests on theme parks that are within reach rather than in town.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Cannes peaks in July and August, its driest and warmest stretch: highs of 28°C, sea at 24-25°C and just 13-18mm of rain. Autumn then turns heavy, with 124-138mm across October and November.

Strasbourg is a June to August trip, warm without being hot, though summer is also its wettest run at 61-77mm a month, so pack for showers. Spring is drier. Winter separates them plainly: Cannes holds 13-14°C in the daytime while Strasbourg sits at 5-7°C.

Getting there

Flying fromCannesStrasbourg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 25 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€133-212
1 stop
SXB · 10 km
NantesNTE
1 h 35 m
€129-163
NCE · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureCannesStrasbourg
Official languageFrenchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m132 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesStrasbourg
City population74,350293,771
People per km²3,7933,752
Museums within 10 km1621
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3887
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.