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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Arequipa 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 Arequipa for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Cannes for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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. Arequipa 8, Cannes 80: Cannes leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Cannes 55: Arequipa leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Cannes 38: Arequipa leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Cannes 42: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Cannes 72: Arequipa leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Cannes 86: Cannes leads by 56 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Cannes 56: Cannes leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Cannes 68: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Cannes 60: Cannes leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Cannes 22: Arequipa leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Cannes 38: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Cannes 42: Cannes leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Cannes.

Your match

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

Arequipa
46match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaCannes
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaFrench
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation2,335 m0 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaCannes
City population1,008,29074,350
People per km²1,5513,793
Museums within 10 km316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.