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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Gold Coast?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Gold Coast for

  • families
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Gold Coast’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, Gold Coast 92: Gold Coast leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Gold Coast 47: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Gold Coast 15: Cannes leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Gold Coast 55: Gold Coast leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Gold Coast 82: Gold Coast leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Gold Coast 52: Cannes leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Gold Coast 89: Gold Coast leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Gold Coast 45: Cannes leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Gold Coast 40: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Gold Coast 35: Gold Coast leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Gold Coast 30: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes and Gold Coast are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Gold Coast.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Gold Coast
52match

Wins on families and nightlife 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

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

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). Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesGold Coast
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10
Emergency number112000
Elevation0 m12 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesGold Coast
City population74,350607,665
People per km²3,793433
Museums within 10 km162
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.