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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Chengdu?

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
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Chengdu for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Chengdu’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, Chengdu 5: Cannes leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Chengdu 86: Chengdu leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Chengdu 60: Chengdu leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Chengdu 68: Chengdu leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Chengdu 68: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Chengdu 80: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Chengdu 65: Chengdu leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Chengdu 74: Chengdu leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Chengdu 64: Chengdu leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Chengdu 50: Chengdu leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Chengdu 58: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Chengdu.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on prices 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

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesChengdu
Official languageFrenchPutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation0 m500 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesChengdu
City population74,35020,937,757
People per km²3,7931,456
Museums within 10 km1610
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.