VacationSelector

Malaga or Nice?

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

Your match

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Nice
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration 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.

MalagaNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 7 points.7
MalagaNice
Score6673
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km2170
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Malaga and Nice are level on 69.
MalagaNice
Score6969
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0021,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3428
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 7 points.7
MalagaNice
Score5346
Museums within 10 km4027
Museums within 2 km of centre3514
Share of museums within 2 km %8852
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 10 points.10
MalagaNice
Score5444
Drinking venues within 4 km715428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre486388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6891
Nightclubs within 4 km4526
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 14 points.14
MalagaNice
Score4357
Protected land share 50 km %724
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %6362
Park area within 2 km85 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 23 points.23
MalagaNice
Score5330
Tourist attractions within 2 km334
Park area within 2 km85 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 10 points.10
MalagaNice
Score3747
Notable places within 2 km3360
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 9 points.9
MalagaNice
Score7162
Price level global60.873.7
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 8 points.8
MalagaNice
Score8274
Monthly daytime high17.2 °C to 31.5 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 88 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months53
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
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. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMalagaNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 9 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMalagaNice
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation18 m0 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaNice
City population599,063357,737
People per km²1,5174,975
Museums within 10 km3216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre6565
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.