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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Amman 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 Amman for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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

Choose Cannes for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Amman 22, Cannes 80: Cannes leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Cannes 55: Amman leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Cannes 38: Amman leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Cannes 42: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Cannes 72: Cannes leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Cannes 86: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Cannes 56: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Cannes 68: Cannes leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Cannes 60: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Cannes 22: Amman leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Cannes 38: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Cannes 42: Amman leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Cannes.

Your match

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

Amman
45match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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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Where the figures come from

Amman has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanCannes
Official languageArabicFrench
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation776 m0 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanCannes
City population4,007,52674,350
People per km²2,3853,793
Museums within 10 km816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.