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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Ghent by ykeiko, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cannes or Ghent?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Ghent for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Ghent’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, Ghent 25: Cannes leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Ghent 62: Ghent leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Ghent 72: Ghent leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Ghent 55: Ghent leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Ghent 35: Cannes leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Ghent 88: Ghent leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Ghent 50: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Ghent 78: Ghent leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Ghent 50: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Ghent 38: Ghent leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Ghent 60: Ghent leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Ghent 33: Cannes leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Ghent.

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 beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Ghent
54match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Ghent 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.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

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). Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesGhent
Official languageFrenchFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m12 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesGhent
City population74,350272,657
People per km²3,7931,728
Museums within 10 km1630
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.