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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Cannes or Cardiff?

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 Cannes for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

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

Choose Cardiff for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’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. Cannes 80, Cardiff 30: Cannes leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Cardiff 45: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Cardiff 58: Cardiff leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Cardiff 50: Cardiff leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Cardiff 70: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Cardiff 72: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Cardiff 58: Cardiff leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Cardiff 66: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Cardiff 50: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Cardiff 46: Cardiff leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Cardiff 57: Cardiff leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Cardiff 27: Cannes leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Cardiff.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Cardiff
52match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre). Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesCardiff
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation0 m41 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesCardiff
City population74,350383,536
People per km²3,7932,734
Museums within 10 km169
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.