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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Glasgow?

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 Glasgow for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Glasgow’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, Glasgow 14: Cannes leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Glasgow 52: Cannes leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Glasgow 62: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Glasgow 76: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Glasgow 58: Glasgow leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Glasgow 66: Cannes leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Glasgow 46: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Glasgow 28: Cannes leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Glasgow.

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.

Glasgow
57match

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

Glasgow in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
4 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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Where the figures come from

Glasgow 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.

Glasgow's sunshine is measured 90 km from the centre, at Eskdalemuir.

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). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesGlasgow
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation0 m21 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesGlasgow
City population74,350626,410
People per km²3,793190
Museums within 10 km1629
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.