VacationSelector

New York or Nice?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Nice
56
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

New YorkNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 9 points.9
New YorkNice
Score6473
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km1770
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 26 points.26
New YorkNice
Score9569
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0321,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3828
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 14 points.14
New YorkNice
Score6046
Museums within 10 km11927
Museums within 2 km of centre3114
Share of museums within 2 km %2652
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. New York leads by 45 points.45
New YorkNice
Score8944
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4891
Nightclubs within 4 km19226
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 18 points.18
New YorkNice
Score3957
Protected land share 50 km %424
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %6962
Park area within 2 km134 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 42 points.42
New YorkNice
Score7230
Tourist attractions within 2 km374
Park area within 2 km134 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km73
Sights concentration. New York leads by 27 points.27
New YorkNice
Score7447
Notable places within 2 km26860
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 19 points.19
New YorkNice
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 16 points.16
New YorkNice
Score5874
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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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F
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A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
MadridMAD
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 6 km
GenevaGVA
8 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 6 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
2 h 5 m
€165-236
EWR · 14 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
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

MeasureNew YorkNice
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m0 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkNice
City population8,804,190357,737
People per km²7,2564,975
Museums within 10 km15716
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre13265
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). 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.