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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Comares Tower and the Palace of Charles V, Alhambra, Granada
GranadaComares Tower and the Palace of Charles V, Alhambra

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Granada by Jebulon, CC0.

Cannes or Granada?

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
  • shopping
  • day trips

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

Choose Granada for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Granada’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, Granada 38: Cannes leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Granada 62: Granada leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Granada 80: Granada leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Granada 58: Granada leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Granada 80: Granada leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Granada 76: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Granada 52: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cannes and Granada are level on 68.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Granada 40: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Granada 63: Granada leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Granada 58: Granada leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Granada 48: Granada leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Granada.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Granada
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Granada in July

35 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesGranada

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). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesGranada
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m693 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesGranada
City population74,350233,975
People per km²3,7932,659
Museums within 10 km1620
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.