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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License.

Cannes or Casablanca?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Casablanca for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Casablanca’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, Casablanca 50: Cannes leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Casablanca 60: Casablanca leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Casablanca 52: Casablanca leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Casablanca 44: Casablanca leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Casablanca 33: Cannes leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Casablanca 55: Cannes leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Casablanca 38: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Casablanca 42: Cannes leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Casablanca 50: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Casablanca 68: Casablanca leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes and Casablanca are level on 38.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Casablanca 52: Casablanca leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Casablanca.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Casablanca
49match

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

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesCasablanca

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). Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesCasablanca
Official languageFrenchArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1
Emergency number112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation0 m115 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesCasablanca
City population74,3503,215,935
People per km²3,7938,375
Museums within 10 km163
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. 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. 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.