VacationSelector
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cannes or Clearwater?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Clearwater for

  • families
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Clearwater’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, Clearwater 90: Clearwater leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Clearwater 38: Cannes leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Clearwater 18: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Clearwater 34: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Clearwater 55: Cannes leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Clearwater 58: Cannes leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Clearwater 78: Clearwater leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Clearwater 28: Cannes leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Clearwater 27: Cannes leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Clearwater 35: Clearwater leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Clearwater 36: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Clearwater 40: Cannes leads by 2 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Clearwater.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

Clearwater
45match

Wins on families and prices 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

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200250JFMAMJJASOND
CannesClearwater

Where the figures come from

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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). Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesClearwater
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 m9 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesClearwater
City population74,350117,292
People per km²3,7931,154
Museums within 10 km164
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Cannes or Clearwater somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.