VacationSelector

Nice or Seattle?

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

Seattle
52
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

NiceSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 13 points.13
NiceSeattle
Score7360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km70100
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 6 points.6
NiceSeattle
Score6975
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2311,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2835
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 10 points.10
NiceSeattle
Score4636
Museums within 10 km2728
Museums within 2 km of centre1417
Share of museums within 2 km %5261
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 13 points.13
NiceSeattle
Score4457
Drinking venues within 4 km428873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9180
Nightclubs within 4 km2634
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 17 points.17
NiceSeattle
Score5740
Protected land share 50 km %249
Landscape blanket share 50 km %200
Land share of disc %6280
Park area within 2 km56 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 16 points.16
NiceSeattle
Score3046
Tourist attractions within 2 km417
Park area within 2 km56 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 5 points.5
NiceSeattle
Score4752
Notable places within 2 km6076
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 19 points.19
NiceSeattle
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 13 points.13
NiceSeattle
Score7461
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months33
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Seattle
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNiceSeattle
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 50 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 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

MeasureNiceSeattle
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m40 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceSeattle
City population357,737737,015
People per km²4,9751,996
Museums within 10 km1627
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6578
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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.