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Cannes or Doha?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
Cannes

Photo: qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped

A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
Doha

Photo: Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Cannes
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Doha
38
match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

CannesDoha
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 35 points.35
Food & drink. Cannes and Doha are level on 55.
Culture & sights. Doha leads by 17 points.17
Nightlife. Cannes leads by 22 points.22
Nature & outdoors. Cannes leads by 65 points.65
Day trips. Cannes leads by 81 points.81
Good for families. Doha leads by 4 points.4
Getting around. Cannes leads by 23 points.23
Shopping & style. Cannes and Doha are level on 60.
Affordability. Doha leads by 16 points.16
Live music & performing arts. Cannes leads by 8 points.8
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes leads by 4 points.4
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Doha.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyCannesDoha
Daytime high28 °C43 °C
Night-time low21 °C33 °C
Rainfall in the month13 mm0 mm
Sunshine11 hours a dayNo figure
Sea temperature24 °C33 °C
Daylight15 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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M
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Doha
23
24
29
33
40
43
43
42
39
36
30
25
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Doha
20
19
21
24
28
30
33
34
33
31
27
23
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Doha
11
11
19
4
2
0
0
0
0
1
7
19
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Doha
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
Doha
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 km from centre). Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCannesDoha
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
3 h 55 m
€321-368
DOH · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€190-202
DOH · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 20 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 20 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
JeddahJED
5 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
2 h 15 m
€239-317
1 stop
DOH · 8 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
DOH · 8 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureCannesDoha
Official languageFrenchArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Qatari Rial (QAR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112999
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCannesDoha
City population74,3501,186,023
People per km²3,7938,985
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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.