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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Belfast 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 Belfast for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Cannes for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • wellness

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. Belfast 20, Cannes 80: Cannes leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Cannes 55: Cannes leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Cannes 38: Belfast leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Cannes 42: Belfast leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Cannes 72: Belfast leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Cannes 86: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Cannes 56: Belfast leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Cannes 68: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Cannes 60: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Cannes 22: Belfast leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Cannes 38: Belfast leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Cannes 42: Cannes leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Cannes.

Your match

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

Belfast
51match

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.

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastCannes
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m0 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastCannes
City population345,00674,350
People per km²3,0003,793
Museums within 10 km816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

Where else could you go?

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