VacationSelector

Cannes or Sydney?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
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.

CannesSydney
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 13 points.13
CannesSydney
Score7360
Swim season months46
Beaches 10 km68160
Coast distance1 km7 km
Water distance1 km7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 28 points.28
CannesSydney
Score5078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4732,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1931
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 15 points.15
CannesSydney
Score3651
Museums within 10 km3144
Museums within 2 km of centre520
Share of museums within 2 km %1645
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 47 points.47
CannesSydney
Score2875
Drinking venues within 4 km1882,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1641,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8769
Nightclubs within 4 km19120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 25 points.25
CannesSydney
Score3358
Protected land share 50 km %1710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5352
Park area within 2 km13 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 39 points.39
CannesSydney
Score2564
Tourist attractions within 2 km737
Park area within 2 km13 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 4 points.4
CannesSydney
Score5660
Notable places within 2 km95123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 12 points.12
CannesSydney
Score6250
Price level global73.790.2
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 7 points.7
CannesSydney
Score7481
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm55 mm to 121 mm
Dry months30
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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesSydney
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
10 h 30 m
€548-574
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
DohaDOH
5 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
9 h 55 m
€539-575
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureCannesSydney
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSydney
City population74,3505,450,496
People per km²3,793449
Museums within 10 km1638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre3879
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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.