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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The pastel houses of Rainbow Row, Charleston
CharlestonThe pastel houses of Rainbow Row

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Charleston by NealVickers, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Charleston?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Charleston for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Charleston’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, Charleston 72: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Charleston 72: Charleston leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Charleston 64: Charleston leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Charleston 44: Charleston leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Charleston 55: Cannes leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Charleston 62: Cannes leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Charleston 60: Charleston leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Charleston 46: Cannes leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Charleston 55: Cannes leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Charleston 27: Charleston leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Charleston 42: Charleston leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Charleston 40: Cannes leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Charleston.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cannes
55match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Charleston
53match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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

Charleston in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
167 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 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. Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre). Charleston: 1991-2020 normals, Charleston Airport (16.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesCharleston
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m6 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsCharleston International Airport (CHS)16 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesCharleston
City population74,350150,227
People per km²3,793532
Museums within 10 km1619
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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. 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.