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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Cannes?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Adelaide for

  • live music and the arts
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Adelaide’s own page.

Choose Cannes for

  • day trips
  • shopping
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Cannes’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Adelaide 68, Cannes 80: Cannes leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Cannes 55: Adelaide leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Cannes 38: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide and Cannes are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Cannes 72: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Cannes 86: Cannes leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Cannes 56: Adelaide leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Cannes 68: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Cannes 60: Cannes leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Cannes 22: Adelaide leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Cannes 38: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide and Cannes are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Cannes.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Adelaide
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and prices with your weighting.

Cannes
55match

Wins on day trips and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Cannes in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideCannes
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m0 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideCannes
City population1,387,29074,350
People per km²1,0713,793
Museums within 10 km1316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Adelaide or Cannes somewhere new.

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.