VacationSelector

Munich or Nice?

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, 1 point apart

Munich
57
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Nice
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

MunichNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 73 points.73
MunichNice
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km670
Coast distance579 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 4 points.4
MunichNice
Score7369
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2801,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3528
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 15 points.15
MunichNice
Score6146
Museums within 10 km7427
Museums within 2 km of centre4814
Share of museums within 2 km %6552
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Munich leads by 23 points.23
MunichNice
Score6744
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5791
Nightclubs within 4 km10326
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 9 points.9
MunichNice
Score4857
Protected land share 50 km %1724
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1520
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km199 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 49 points.49
MunichNice
Score7930
Tourist attractions within 2 km804
Park area within 2 km199 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 21 points.21
MunichNice
Score6847
Notable places within 2 km19660
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 2 points.2
MunichNice
Score6062
Price level global75.973.7
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 18 points.18
MunichNice
Score5674
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months03
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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Munich
No coastline within reach
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2
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. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 29 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureMunichNice
Official languageGermanFrench
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
Elevation519 m0 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichNice
City population1,510,378357,737
People per km²4,8614,975
Museums within 10 km7416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8965
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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.