VacationSelector

Cannes or West Palm Beach?

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

Your match

Cannes
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

CannesWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 15 points.15
CannesWest Palm Beach
Score7388
Swim season months412
Beaches 10 km6810
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Cannes leads by 13 points.13
CannesWest Palm Beach
Score5037
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1914
Museums & heritage. Cannes leads by 19 points.19
CannesWest Palm Beach
Score3617
Museums within 10 km315
Museums within 2 km of centre53
Share of museums within 2 km %1660
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Cannes leads by 8 points.8
CannesWest Palm Beach
Score2820
Drinking venues within 4 km188132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre16490
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8768
Nightclubs within 4 km1910
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 36 points.36
CannesWest Palm Beach
Score3369
Protected land share 50 km %1715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %5345
Park area within 2 km13 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Cannes leads by 4 points.4
CannesWest Palm Beach
Score2521
Tourist attractions within 2 km73
Park area within 2 km13 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 44 points.44
CannesWest Palm Beach
Score5612
Notable places within 2 km958
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cannes leads by 19 points.19
CannesWest Palm Beach
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 1 points.1
CannesWest Palm Beach
Score7475
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesWest Palm Beach
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 20 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 25 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
DJT · 6 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

MeasureCannesWest Palm Beach
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesWest Palm Beach
City population74,350117,415
People per km²3,793786
Museums within 10 km164
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3818
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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.