VacationSelector

Nice or Philadelphia?

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

Your match

Nice
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

NicePhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 73 points.73
NicePhiladelphia
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km701
Coast distance1 km13 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 8 points.8
NicePhiladelphia
Score6977
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2311,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2835
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 14 points.14
NicePhiladelphia
Score4660
Museums within 10 km2789
Museums within 2 km of centre1448
Share of museums within 2 km %5254
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 15 points.15
NicePhiladelphia
Score4459
Drinking venues within 4 km428930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9162
Nightclubs within 4 km2641
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 8 points.8
NicePhiladelphia
Score5749
Protected land share 50 km %2414
Landscape blanket share 50 km %200
Land share of disc %6289
Park area within 2 km56 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 23 points.23
NicePhiladelphia
Score3053
Tourist attractions within 2 km416
Park area within 2 km56 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 7 points.7
NicePhiladelphia
Score4754
Notable places within 2 km6088
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 19 points.19
NicePhiladelphia
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 14 points.14
NicePhiladelphia
Score7460
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm69 mm to 112 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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNicePhiladelphia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 6 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 50 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 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

MeasureNicePhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNicePhiladelphia
City population357,7371,603,797
People per km²4,9754,339
Museums within 10 km1654
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6575
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. 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.