VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Nice?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Nice
56
match

Wins on 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.

Hong KongNice
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 14 points.14
Hong KongNice
Score8773
Swim season months84
Beaches 10 km6570
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 19 points.19
Hong KongNice
Score8869
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3251,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3228
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 10 points.10
Hong KongNice
Score3646
Museums within 10 km5027
Museums within 2 km of centre1714
Share of museums within 2 km %3452
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
Hong KongNice
Score7144
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5991
Nightclubs within 4 km3726
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 7 points.7
Hong KongNice
Score6457
Protected land share 50 km %824
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %2962
Park area within 2 km52 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 28 points.28
Hong KongNice
Score5830
Tourist attractions within 2 km274
Park area within 2 km52 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 22 points.22
Hong KongNice
Score6947
Notable places within 2 km20460
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 1 points.1
Hong KongNice
Score6362
Price level global7273.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Hong Kong and Nice are level on 74.
Hong KongNice
Score7474
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months43
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
MunichMUC
11 h 15 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHong KongNice
Official languageStandard ChineseFrench
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m0 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongNice
City population7,413,070357,737
People per km²4,975
Museums within 10 km3916
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7665
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.