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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cannes or Daytona Beach?

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 Daytona Beach for

  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Daytona Beach’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 and Daytona Beach are level on 80.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Daytona Beach 36: Cannes leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Daytona Beach 30: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Daytona Beach 40: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Daytona Beach 56: Cannes leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Daytona Beach 66: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Daytona Beach 60: Daytona Beach leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Daytona Beach 18: Cannes leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Daytona Beach 27: Cannes leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Daytona Beach 46: Daytona Beach leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Daytona Beach 30: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Daytona Beach 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 Daytona Beach.

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.

Daytona Beach
43match

Wins on prices and families 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

Daytona Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
153 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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CannesDaytona Beach

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). Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesDaytona Beach
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 m4 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesDaytona Beach
City population74,35072,647
People per km²3,793440
Museums within 10 km166
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months9 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.