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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Catania?

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

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • wellness

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

Choose Catania for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Catania’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, Catania 72: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Catania 77: Catania leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Catania 62: Catania leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Catania 60: Catania leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Catania 83: Catania leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Catania 84: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Catania 50: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Catania 48: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Catania 42: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Catania 60: Catania leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Catania 55: Catania leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Catania 30: Cannes leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Catania.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

Catania
Best match
60match

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

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

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). Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesCatania
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m7 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesCatania
City population74,350311,584
People per km²3,7931,704
Museums within 10 km1625
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.