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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
A paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz, Fethiye
FethiyeA paraglider over the beach at Ölüdeniz

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Fethiye by rheins, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Cannes or Fethiye?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • getting around

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

Choose Fethiye for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Fethiye’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, Fethiye 82: Fethiye leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Fethiye 45: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Fethiye 35: Cannes leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Cannes and Fethiye are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Fethiye 84: Fethiye leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Fethiye 76: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Fethiye 60: Fethiye leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Fethiye 50: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Fethiye 38: Cannes leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Fethiye 62: Fethiye leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Fethiye 15: Cannes leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Fethiye 55: Fethiye leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Fethiye.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cannes
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Fethiye
54match

Wins on prices and wellness 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

Fethiye in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Fethiye's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Fethiye 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.

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). Fethiye: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (30.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesFethiye
Official languageFrenchTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m0 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)30 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesFethiye
City population74,350182,200
People per km²3,793-
Museums within 10 km161
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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.