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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The old town on the Neckar, Heidelberg
HeidelbergThe old town on the Neckar

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Heidelberg by Kuanling Chen, Pexels License.

Cannes or Heidelberg?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Heidelberg for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Heidelberg’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, Heidelberg 7: Cannes leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Heidelberg 40: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Heidelberg 58: Heidelberg leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Heidelberg 38: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Heidelberg 60: Cannes leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Heidelberg 78: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Heidelberg 62: Heidelberg leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Heidelberg 72: Heidelberg leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Heidelberg 40: Cannes leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Heidelberg 42: Heidelberg leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Heidelberg 48: Heidelberg leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Heidelberg 44: Heidelberg leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Heidelberg.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Heidelberg
49match

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

Heidelberg in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesHeidelberg

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). Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesHeidelberg
Official languageFrenchGerman
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 m114 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre281 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesHeidelberg
City population74,350156,092
People per km²3,7931,433
Museums within 10 km1617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.