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The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet
Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day

Photos: Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License.

Cannes or Huntington Beach?

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

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Huntington Beach for

  • families
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Huntington Beach’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, Huntington Beach 70: Cannes leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Cannes 55, Huntington Beach 46: Cannes leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Cannes 38, Huntington Beach 14: Cannes leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Cannes 42, Huntington Beach 38: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cannes 72, Huntington Beach 58: Cannes leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Cannes 86, Huntington Beach 63: Cannes leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Cannes 56, Huntington Beach 82: Huntington Beach leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Cannes 68, Huntington Beach 20: Cannes leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Cannes 60, Huntington Beach 42: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Cannes 22, Huntington Beach 28: Huntington Beach leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cannes 38, Huntington Beach 33: Cannes leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cannes 42, Huntington Beach 36: Cannes leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cannes and Huntington Beach.

Your match

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

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Huntington Beach
44match

Wins on families 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

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CannesHuntington Beach

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). Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCannesHuntington Beach
Official languageFrench-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m12 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesHuntington Beach
City population74,350198,711
People per km²3,7932,406
Museums within 10 km163
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.