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The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet

Photos: Budapest by Perituss, CC0; Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Budapest 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 Budapest for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Budapest’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. Budapest 25, Cannes 80: Cannes leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Budapest 63, Cannes 55: Budapest leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Budapest 80, Cannes 38: Budapest leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Budapest 78, Cannes 42: Budapest leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Budapest 58, Cannes 72: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Budapest 68, Cannes 86: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Budapest 62, Cannes 56: Budapest leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Budapest 78, Cannes 68: Budapest leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Budapest 55, Cannes 60: Cannes leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Budapest 62, Cannes 22: Budapest leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Budapest 76, Cannes 38: Budapest leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Budapest 98, Cannes 42: Budapest leads by 56 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Budapest and Cannes.

Your match

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

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

Cannes
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.

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBudapestCannes
Official languageHungarianFrench
CurrencyForint (HUF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m0 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestCannes
City population1,675,77774,350
People per km²3,1913,793
Museums within 10 km8116
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). 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.