VacationSelector

Nice or Tokyo?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

NiceTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 52 points.52
NiceTokyo
Score7321
Swim season months44
Beaches 10 km701
Coast distance1 km5 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
NiceTokyo
Score6990
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2316,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2825
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 20 points.20
NiceTokyo
Score4666
Museums within 10 km27302
Museums within 2 km of centre1452
Share of museums within 2 km %5217
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 51 points.51
NiceTokyo
Score4495
Drinking venues within 4 km4286,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3883,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9144
Nightclubs within 4 km2658
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 1 points.1
NiceTokyo
Score5758
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %200
Land share of disc %6285
Park area within 2 km56 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 41 points.41
NiceTokyo
Score3071
Tourist attractions within 2 km440
Park area within 2 km56 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km39
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 13 points.13
NiceTokyo
Score4760
Notable places within 2 km60121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 8 points.8
NiceTokyo
Score6270
Price level global73.762.4
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 10 points.10
NiceTokyo
Score7464
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm57 mm to 237 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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNiceTokyo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 6 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
5 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 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

MeasureNiceTokyo
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceTokyo
City population357,73714,264,798
People per km²4,9756,501
Museums within 10 km16191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre65125
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.