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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
BucharestThe CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet

Photos: Bucharest by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Bucharest 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 Bucharest for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Cannes for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • 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. Bucharest 8, Cannes 80: Cannes leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Bucharest and Cannes are level on 55.
Culture & sights. Bucharest 58, Cannes 38: Bucharest leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Bucharest 70, Cannes 42: Bucharest leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest 45, Cannes 72: Cannes leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Bucharest 52, Cannes 86: Cannes leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Bucharest 52, Cannes 56: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Bucharest 52, Cannes 68: Cannes leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Bucharest 45, Cannes 60: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Bucharest 70, Cannes 22: Bucharest leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest 60, Cannes 38: Bucharest leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest 47, Cannes 42: Bucharest leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest and Cannes.

Your match

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

Bucharest
51match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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.

Bucharest in July

30 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
68 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBucharestCannes
Official languageRomanianFrench
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m0 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestCannes
City population1,716,96174,350
People per km²7,5973,793
Museums within 10 km4116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.