Car hire prices at Nice Airport

For November 2026 at Nice Airport, use £39 a day as your benchmark for a Compact car such as a Peugeot 308, booked around a month before your trip. At the same lead time, a Mini car such as a Fiat 500 averages £28 a day, while an Economy car such as an Opel Corsa averages £35. In the last 2 weeks, a Compact car averages £30 a day, £9 less than around a month before your trip. Check your quote against the price checker for your exact dates.

For November 2026 at Nice Airport, a Compact car is cheaper in the last 2 weeks at £30 a day on average, £9 less than around a month before your trip. Timing changes prices relatively little across the year, so you need not book months ahead just to secure a lower rate. Across the year, a Compact car booked around 9 months before your trip averages £50 a day, so you have not missed a cheaper early rate. Across the 395 airports we track car hire prices for, 65% of our customers booked within a month of pickup, so you need not treat that timing as unusually late.

Thrifty is the cheapest company at Nice Airport for a Compact car over the last 12 months, averaging £35 a day, but you need a credit card at its airport desk. Thrifty scores 83/100 from 93 reviews over the last 5 months, so the lowest price still comes with a review score. If you need to use a debit card, compare Dollar: its Compact cars average £38 a day over the last 12 months, £3 more than Thrifty, and it scores 84/100 from 115 recent reviews.

The cheapest company can cost you a longer queue or a bigger deposit, so check the review score and desk wait beside each car in the results before you book.

If reviews guide your choice, Key N Go leads at Nice Airport with 87/100 from 31 reviews over the last 5 months and a 15-minute average desk wait. Key N Go is not the cheapest: its Compact cars average £68 a day over the last 12 months. Thrifty averages £35 a day for a Compact car over the same period, £33 less than Key N Go, and scores 83/100 from 93 recent reviews, so compare that saving against the score difference. Do not treat Flizzr or National as rated alternatives yet: each does not yet have enough reviews for a score.

Review scores are CarTrawler customers' own, from the last five months; the score and the desk wait sit beside each car in the results.

At Nice Airport, deposits range from £128 with Key N Go to £2,135 with Goldcar, and 6 of the 15 companies accept a debit card, so check both before you book. If you plan to use a debit card, filter for it before comparing prices; the deposit and card rule are shown beside each car in the results. Extras charged at the desk are listed under each car with their price.

If you bring your own child seat, check your airline's rules first: most carry one free, some charge.

At Nice Airport, check card acceptance and leave time for collection: 9 of the 15 desks require a credit card, and Flizzr's desk wait averages 41 minutes. If you only have a debit card, filter for an accepting company before choosing your car. Europcar averages 14 minutes at its desk, so compare pickup waits before arranging a time-sensitive onward trip. Goldcar holds £2,135 on your card, so check that you can accommodate the deposit as well as the rental price.

Only 83% of prices at Nice Airport are full tank out, full tank back, so read the fuel line under the car before you book.

At Nice Airport, choose a Compact car such as a Peugeot 308 at £39 a day in November 2026, around a month before your trip, if you need space for up to 3 bags. A Compact car seats 5 but takes 3 bags, so a full party needs to limit its luggage rather than choose by seat count alone. For November 2026 at the same lead time, step down to an Economy car such as an Opel Corsa at £35 a day for 2 bags, or up to an Intermediate car such as a Nissan Qashqai at £44 a day for 4 bags. Automatic cars are 63% of cars offered, so you have a broad choice; over the full period tracked, an automatic Compact car averages £50 a day versus £47 for a manual Compact car, £3 more a day. Electric cars are 10% of cars offered and hybrids are 1%, so filter for your preferred type rather than assume either will be included in your choice.