How many days do you need in Nice?
Three days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Nice.
Here is what each day holds. Every stop below carries its time, and every gap says how to get to the next stop, with the walk or drive time wherever both stops are mapped.
Nice · 3 days France
Best time: April to June and September to October for warmth without the August crush.
Old Nice and the hillDay 1
🍽️9:30 AMCours Saleya market
The flower and produce market in the old town, with a brocante on Mondays instead.
🚶 ~3 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.1 mi
📍12:00 PMVieux Nice
The tight grid of ochre lanes below the hill, more Ligurian than French, with socca griddled on the corners.
🚶 ~7 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.2 mi
📍4:00 PMColline du Chateau
The castle hill above the old town, with a waterfall, ruins and the classic view down the Baie des Anges.
Promenade and museumsDay 2
📍9:30 AMPromenade des Anglais
The seafront walk laid out by English winter residents in the nineteenth century, seven kilometres end to end.
🚶 ~47 min · 🚗 ~6 min · 1.7 mi
📍1:00 PMMusee Matisse
In a Genoese villa in Cimiez, holding work Matisse kept himself, with Roman ruins in the olive grove outside.
🚶 ~22 min · 🚗 ~3 min · 0.8 mi
📍4:00 PMMusee Marc Chagall
Built around the Biblical Message cycle, seventeen large canvases the painter gave to the state.
Along the coastDay 3
📍9:00 AMEze village
A medieval village stacked on a rock above the sea, with an exotic garden in the ruined castle at the top.
🚗 ~10 min · 2.9 mi
📍1:00 PMMonaco
Twenty minutes by train: the palace rock, the harbour and the oceanographic museum built into the cliff.
🚗 ~20 min · 5.7 mi
📍5:30 PMVillefranche-sur-Mer
A deep natural harbour one stop from Nice, with a coloured seafront and a much calmer beach.
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