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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Dublin?

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
  • wellness
  • day trips

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

Choose Dublin for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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, Dublin 27: Cannes leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Dublin 50: Cannes leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Dublin 64: Dublin leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Dublin 62: Dublin leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Dublin 70: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Dublin 72: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Dublin 57: Dublin leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Dublin 66: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Dublin 54: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Dublin 20: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Dublin 65: Dublin leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Dublin 25: Cannes leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Dublin.

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 beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Dublin
53match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 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). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesDublin
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m20 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesDublin
City population74,350592,713
People per km²3,7935,154
Museums within 10 km1640
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. 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 figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.