VacationSelector

Nice or Rio de Janeiro?

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

Your match

Nice
56
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming 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.

NiceRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 27 points.27
NiceRio de Janeiro
Score73100
Swim season months412
Beaches 10 km7061
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 15 points.15
NiceRio de Janeiro
Score6954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,231804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2816
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 23 points.23
NiceRio de Janeiro
Score4669
Museums within 10 km27110
Museums within 2 km of centre1451
Share of museums within 2 km %5246
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Rio de Janeiro leads by 13 points.13
NiceRio de Janeiro
Score4457
Drinking venues within 4 km428818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9162
Nightclubs within 4 km2650
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 5 points.5
NiceRio de Janeiro
Score5762
Protected land share 50 km %2421
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2017
Land share of disc %6257
Park area within 2 km56 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 29 points.29
NiceRio de Janeiro
Score3059
Tourist attractions within 2 km430
Park area within 2 km56 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Rio de Janeiro leads by 9 points.9
NiceRio de Janeiro
Score4756
Notable places within 2 km6098
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 19 points.19
NiceRio de Janeiro
Score6281
Price level global73.746.1
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 11 points.11
NiceRio de Janeiro
Score7485
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm42 mm to 232 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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Rio de Janeiro
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromNiceRio de Janeiro
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 km
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 12 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 6 km
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
PortoOPO
2 h 15 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
10 h 0 m
€827-915
1 stop
GIG · 12 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

MeasureNiceRio de Janeiro
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation0 m31 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceRio de Janeiro
City population357,7376,211,223
People per km²4,9754,930
Museums within 10 km1670
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre6527
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.