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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cannes or Hong Kong?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Hong Kong for

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Hong Kong’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, Hong Kong 50: Cannes leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Hong Kong 90: Hong Kong leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Hong Kong 60: Hong Kong leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Hong Kong 68: Hong Kong leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Hong Kong 80: Hong Kong leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Hong Kong 68: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Hong Kong 75: Hong Kong leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Hong Kong 97: Hong Kong leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Hong Kong 88: Hong Kong leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Hong Kong 27: Hong Kong leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Hong Kong 55: Hong Kong leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes and Hong Kong are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Hong Kong.

Your match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on food and drink and getting around 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

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesHong Kong

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). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesHong Kong
Official languageFrenchStandard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation0 m7 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesHong Kong
City population74,3507,413,070
People per km²3,793-
Museums within 10 km1639
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.