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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Fukuoka?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Fukuoka for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Fukuoka’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, Fukuoka 50: Cannes leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Fukuoka 50: Fukuoka leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Fukuoka 60: Fukuoka leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Fukuoka 62: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Fukuoka 84: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Fukuoka 78: Fukuoka leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Fukuoka 65: Fukuoka leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Fukuoka 58: Fukuoka leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Fukuoka 45: Fukuoka leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Fukuoka 60: Fukuoka leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Fukuoka.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on prices and food and drink 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

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesFukuoka

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). Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesFukuoka
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation0 m8 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesFukuoka
City population74,3501,603,043
People per km²3,7934,715
Museums within 10 km1623
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.