VacationSelector

Nice or Vancouver?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Nice
56
match

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

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on good for families 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.

NiceVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 13 points.13
NiceVancouver
Score7360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km70109
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 5 points.5
NiceVancouver
Score6974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2311,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2835
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 12 points.12
NiceVancouver
Score4634
Museums within 10 km2727
Museums within 2 km of centre1415
Share of museums within 2 km %5256
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 13 points.13
NiceVancouver
Score4457
Drinking venues within 4 km428848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9171
Nightclubs within 4 km2644
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 20 points.20
NiceVancouver
Score5777
Protected land share 50 km %2419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %200
Land share of disc %6260
Park area within 2 km56 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 23 points.23
NiceVancouver
Score3053
Tourist attractions within 2 km415
Park area within 2 km56 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 1 points.1
NiceVancouver
Score4748
Notable places within 2 km6063
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 8 points.8
NiceVancouver
Score6254
Price level global73.784
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 21 points.21
NiceVancouver
Score7453
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNiceVancouver
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€198-243
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
€193-242
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 6 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 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

MeasureNiceVancouver
Official languageFrenchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceVancouver
City population357,737662,248
People per km²4,9755,759
Museums within 10 km1626
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6585
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.